Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:44:20 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: industrialio-core: Fix compiler warning | From | Maxin B John <> |
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On 08/22/11 11:08, Maxin B. John wrote: >> drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c: In function >> 'iio_device_add_event_sysfs': >> drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c:914: warning: 'mask' may be >> used uninitialized in this function > Thanks for the patch. It's actually a driver bug if this occurs. > We could have had a WARN_ON to let userspace know about the bug and > indeed taken the error route you suggest but > the relevant code has actually undergone a rewrite anyway so the > bit you are fixing doesn't exist any more anyway.
Yes, That makes more sense.
> See http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio-blue.git;a=summary > For our current dev tree (eats babies and includes all sorts of stuff > that hasn't been reviewed yet - so beware).
Thanks for sharing this (scary) info :)
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