Re: [PATCH 1/2] 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 pktcdvd: init pktdev_major

[Peter Osterlund]

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Thomas Maier wrote:

> pktdev_major must be initialized to 0.

No it doesn't. The BSS section is automatically initialized to 0. In fact, 
in the past there have been several patches for various parts of the 
kernel to remove explicit 0 initialization of global variables.

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