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SubjectRe: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 9/12] IPMI: add pigeonpoint poweroff
Bela Lubkin wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>> Sometime, please go through the IPMI code looking for all these
>>> statically-allocated things which are initialised to 0 or NULL and remove
>>> all those intialisations? They're unneeded, they increase the vmlinux
>>> image size and there are quite a number of them. Thanks.
>
> Randy Dunlop replied:
>
>> I was just about to send that patch. Here it is,
>> on top of the series-of-12.
> ...
>> -static int bt_debug = BT_DEBUG_OFF;
>> +static int bt_debug;
>
> Is it wise to significantly degrade code readability to work around a minor
> compiler / linker bug?

Is that the only one that is a problem?

I don't think it's a problem. We *know* that static data areas
are init to 0. Everything depends on that. If that didn't work
it would all break.

I could say that it's a nice coincidence that BT_DEBUG_OFF == 0,
but I think that it's more than coincidence.

--
~Randy
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