Re: [PATCH] drivers/tty/serial: deal with 8250_core.c uninitialized warning for good

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 15:00 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> 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.

Are people still using gcc variants that get this wrong ?

Fine by me.

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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