Re: [PATCH] i915, debugfs: Fix uninitialized warning

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:25:35PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:10:30PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
> > > index 6ed45a984230..1191aa47adc9 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
> > > @@ -2347,7 +2347,7 @@ static int pipe_crc_set_source(struct drm_device *dev, enum pipe pipe,
> > >  {
> > >         struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
> > >         struct intel_pipe_crc *pipe_crc = &dev_priv->pipe_crc[pipe];
> > > -       u32 val;
> > > +       u32 val = 0; /* shut up gcc */
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be better to use uninitialized_var() here?
> 
> I remember Linus' rant about this macro so that's why I don't use it
> anymore.
> 
> In this specific case, it doesn't matter whichever we do so I'll let the
> maintainer make a wish :)

IIRC this warning was there for me too on gcc 4.6, but it disappeared
on gcc 4.7, which is why I decided not to send a patch for it.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC
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