Re: [PATCH] misc: suppress build warning

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 04 December 2014 14:38:30 Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> this patch fixes following build warning:
> 
> drivers/misc/ioc4.c: In function âioc4_probeâ:
> drivers/misc/ioc4.c:194:16: warning: âstartâ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>   period = (end - start) /
>                 ^
> drivers/misc/ioc4.c:148:11: note: âstartâ was declared here
>   uint64_t start, end, period;
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx>

Please explain why the compiler thinks there is a bug, why you 
are sure that there isn't, and why you picked '0' as the
initialization value.

	Arnd
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