Re: [PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for workqueue creation

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:43:37PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
| On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:10:05 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 
| > I may be wrong, but a lot of the kernel code have static pointers
| > initialized to NULL with explicit manner... More over I always thought
| > that _static_ is not mean _initialized to zero_. I think _static_ is
| > just the method to _hide_ variables in the file (as ANSI C describes).
| > Am I wrong?
| 
| I'm afraid you are wrong here. Static variables are initialized on
| zero in C, although I cannot provide you with a relevant quote from
| a standard. Just trust me for now, and resubmit the patch without
| the first segment... :-)  You're clearly fixing a bug in it.
| 
| -- Pete
| 

Hi Pete,

OK, I'll send a new one ;)

		Cyrill

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