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| author | Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2014-02-19 15:00:13 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-02-28 16:25:47 -0800 |
| commit | bd2fe272a8ec3841189e07a9a8e9879fe26a3cdc (patch) | |
| tree | e5ad418c4b37010c21c4b4d3778d5cada95ac75e /drivers/tty/serial/8250 | |
| parent | 8301bb240d0f1b1521b83342f3af8edab7131361 (diff) | |
drivers/tty/serial: deal with 8250_core.c uninitialized warning for good
Every couple of months, someone sends a patch to fix:
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c: In function 'serial_unlink_irq_chain':
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:1712:2: warning: 'i' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
and they in turn get a NACK for their efforts, and are told that
their compiler is broken. This has been going on since at least
the year 2008: https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/24/433
Lets add a comment, so that subsequent patches don't get as far as
the maintainers or the mailing lists.
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/serial/8250')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c index 69932b7556cf..747073b8c38a 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c @@ -1694,6 +1694,10 @@ static int serial_link_irq_chain(struct uart_8250_port *up) static void serial_unlink_irq_chain(struct uart_8250_port *up) { + /* + * yes, some broken gcc emit "warning: 'i' may be used uninitialized" + * but no, we are not going to take a patch that assigns NULL below. + */ struct irq_info *i; struct hlist_node *n; struct hlist_head *h; |