Re: [PATCH, resend] kfifo: initialize fifo accordingly to C99 standard

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Nov 29 2012 - 07:57:26 EST


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:31:11 +0200
>> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> When build a kernel with "make W=1" we will get a warning about missing
>>> initializer. It comes from kfifo usage style. The DEFINE_KFIFO macro doesn't
>>> initialize the buf[] field of the fifo structure. So, using C99 style helps in
>>> such case.
>>
>> I see no such warning. When fixing warnings or compilation errors,
>> please always quote the compiler output in the changelog.
>
> Oh, I did wrong assumption. However, it looks like linux-stable 3.0.y
> is affected;
>
> CC [M] samples/kfifo/inttype-example.o
> samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c:44:506: warning: missing initializer
> [-Wmissing-field-initializers]
> samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c:44:506: warning: (near initialization
> for â(anonymous).bufâ) [-Wmissing-field-initializers]
>
> And it seems that my solution not the one which is used in linux-next.

Okay. I found the commit f858ee8b8cd8c216ddbeefae6e047ce90cae9cca
("kbuild: disable -Wmissing-field-initializers for W=1") hides the
warning.
After reverting this one I get the same warning as before:

CC [M] samples/kfifo/inttype-example.o
samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c:44:506: warning: missing initializer
[-Wmissing-field-initializers]
samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c:44:506: warning: (near initialization
for â(anonymous).bufâ) [-Wmissing-field-initializers]

> gcc (Debian 4.7.2-2) 4.7.2


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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