Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/tty/serial: deal with 8250_core.c uninitialized warning for good | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:51:23 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 15:00 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Every couple of months, someone sends a patch to fix: > > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c: In function 'serial_unlink_irq_chain': > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:1712:2: warning: 'i' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] > > and they in turn get a NACK for their efforts, and are told that > their compiler is broken. This has been going on since at least > the year 2008: https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/24/433 > > Lets add a comment, so that subsequent patches don't get as far as > the maintainers or the mailing lists.
Are people still using gcc variants that get this wrong ?
Fine by me.
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
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