Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: fix a sparse warning

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On 2015/3/9 16:53, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 04:41:00PM +0800, Zhang Zhen wrote:
>> On 2015/3/9 16:22, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 03:42:30PM +0800, Zhang Zhen wrote:
>>>> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c: In function ‘serial8250_console_write’:
>>>> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:3244: warning: ‘flags’ may be used u
>>>> unitialized in this function
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 2 +-
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>>>> index deae122..50702e2 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>>>> @@ -3241,7 +3241,7 @@ serial8250_console_write(struct console *co, const char *s, unsigned int count)
>>>>  {
>>>>  	struct uart_8250_port *up = &serial8250_ports[co->index];
>>>>  	struct uart_port *port = &up->port;
>>>> -	unsigned long flags;
>>>> +	unsigned long flags = 0;
>>>>  	unsigned int ier;
>>>>  	int locked = 1;
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sparse generated this?  Or did a broken / old version of gcc?
>>>
>> Sorry, it's a gcc warning.
>>
>> My gcc version is:
>> gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.3.4 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973]
> 
> That's really old and obsolete, please use a modern version of gcc,
> especially when sending in patches for compiler warnings.
> 
Ok, thanks!

> greg k-h
> 
> .
> 


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