On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:18:21AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 00:04, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Oh, I'm getting the following warning when building the driver, want to
> > look into this?
> >
> > drivers/i2c/chips/w83781d.c: In function `store_fan_div_reg':
> > drivers/i2c/chips/w83781d.c:715: warning: `old3' might be used uninitialized in this function
> >
>
> It is because old3 is only referenced if:
>
> ((data->type != w83781d) && data->type != as99127f)
>
> as those two chips don't have extended divisor bits ...
>
> It is however set in the first occurrence:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> /* w83781d and as99127f don't have extended divisor bits */
> if ((data->type != w83781d) && data->type != as99127f) {
> old3 = w83781d_read_value(client, W83781D_REG_VBAT);
> }
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and thus is rather gcc being brain dead for not being able to figure
> old3 is only used within a if block like that.
>
> I was not sure about style policy in a case like this, so I left it as
> is, it should however be possible to 'fix' it with:
Thanks, I've applied this.
greg k-h
