Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: do not initialise global variables to 0 or NULL

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 02:43:45PM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 1:42 PM Deepak R Varma <mh12gx2825@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Initializing global variable to 0 or NULL is not necessary and should
> > be avoided. Issue reported by checkpatch script as:
> > ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 (or NULL).
> 
> I agree that this is technically correct, but a lot of people don't
> seem to know that so we get a lot of comments about this code for the
> variables that are not explicitly set.  Seems less confusing to
> initialize them even if it not necessary.  I don't have a particularly
> strong opinion on it however.

The kernel coding style is to do it this way.  You even save space and
time by doing it as well :)

thanks,

greg k-h