Hi Michael, On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:49:34AM +0100, Michael Wang wrote: > Why not just initialized it as NULL, or mark it as uninitialized_var()? because I'd like us to save us the redundant NULL initialization in the if-case. I'm not saying any of the approaches are good visually, though. Who knows, someone might have a better idea like, maybe "Oh, I wanted to rewrite that code and this handlong is going to be different anyway ..." or so. Or something to that effect. Btw, please do not top-post. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html