Hello Markus Rechberger, The patch e43f14af1439: "[PATCH] v4l: 790: added support for terratec cinergy 250 usb" from Nov 8, 2005, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-input.c:307 em28xx_i2c_ir_handle_key() error: uninitialized symbol 'protocol'. drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-input.c 84 static int em28xx_get_key_terratec(struct i2c_client *i2c_dev, 85 enum rc_type *protocol, u32 *scancode) 86 { 87 unsigned char b; 88 89 /* poll IR chip */ 90 if (1 != i2c_master_recv(i2c_dev, &b, 1)) 91 return -EIO; 92 93 /* it seems that 0xFE indicates that a button is still hold 94 down, while 0xff indicates that no button is hold down. */ 95 96 if (b == 0xff) 97 return 0; 98 99 if (b == 0xfe) 100 /* keep old data */ 101 return 1; This is only called from em28xx_i2c_ir_handle_key() and the "old data" is uninitialized garbage. 102 103 *protocol = RC_TYPE_UNKNOWN; 104 *scancode = b; 105 return 1; 106 } regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html