Re: [PATCH net] mcs7780: Silence uninitialized variable warning

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On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 10:37:16AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:41:40 +0300
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:28:55PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:45:11 +0300
> >> 
> >> > -	__u16 rval;
> >> > +	__u16 rval = -1;
> >> 
> >> Fixing a bogus warning by assigning a signed constant to an
> >> unsigned variable doesn't really make me all that happy.
> >> 
> >> I don't think I'll apply this, sorry.
> > 
> > There's no guarantee that small kmallocs will always succeed in future
> > kernels so it's not *totally* bogus.
> 
> Perhaps the burdon of initializing the value belongs in
> mcs_get_reg(), and you can set it properly to 0xffff
> instead of -1.
> 
> Ok?

Sure.  I will resend.

thanks,
dan carpenter
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