On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:35:07AM +0800, Grant Likely wrote: > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c: In function 'serial_unlink_irq_chain': > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c:1676:19: warning: 'i' may be used uninitialized in this function > > There isn't an actual bug here since the function tests the condition > that would cause i to be uninitialized before dereferencing i. However, > at least some versions of GCC complain as shown above. (in my case, > powerpc gcc 2.5.2). Initializing i to NULL makes it clear to GCC and the > casual code reviewer that i will not be dereferenced to a random > address. > > Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Greg, some may argue that this is a tool problem, not a kernel problem, > but it is useful to me. If anyone objects I'm not going to spend any > time championing for this patch. Upgrade your tools to ones that work properly :) greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
