Re: [PATCH] IB/lmx4: silence GCC warning

From: Paul Bolle
Date: Mon Oct 29 2012 - 05:49:59 EST


On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 09:23 +0200, Jack Morgenstein wrote:
> You could use:
>
> u16 uninitialized_var(vlan);
>
> instead.

I guess we'd better just wait and see whether uninitialized_var()
survives before discussing your suggestion (see the thread starting at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/26/508 ).

> Although this in the special QP data flow, I still prefer to avoid adding extra code (even setting
> initial values at procedure entry). The line above will also do the job. "uninitialized_var"
> is used elsewhere in the driver. See, for example, mlx4_ib_post_send() in the same file (qp.c).


Paul Bolle

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