Doing bogus initializations turns off GCC's checking for uninitialized variables so it's a bad habbit. On the other hand, GCC's checking is not perfect and it sometimes misses bugs so these patches have to be reviewed manually which is maybe too much work to be worthwhile. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html