Re: [PATCH]Silencing warning: 'host' may be used uninitialized inthis function

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Apr 09 2009 - 18:38:48 EST


Marin Mitov wrote:
Hi all,

I do not know if that is worth the effort, but...

Silencing: warning: 'host' may be used uninitialized in this function
It is a false positive.

The patch is against 2.6.30-rc1, but should apply to 2.6.29(.1) too.

Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov mitov@xxxxxxxxxxx
================================================
--- a/drivers/ata/sata_via.c 2009-04-05 22:59:26.000000000 +0300
+++ b/drivers/ata/sata_via.c 2009-04-06 00:07:25.000000000 +0300
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@
static int printed_version;
unsigned int i;
int rc;
- struct ata_host *host;
+ struct ata_host *host = host;
int board_id = (int) ent->driver_data;
const unsigned *bar_sizes;

we use the uninitialized_var() macro for false positives.

Jeff



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