Re: [PATCH] gpio: pca953x: initialize ret to zero to avoid returning garbage

From: Colin Ian King
Date: Tue Sep 13 2016 - 08:47:14 EST


On 13/09/16 13:46, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Please try to avoid adding initializations in the local variable
>> declaration, they just hide otherwise useful warnings when
>> you get a function that actually does something incorrect
>> in some code paths.
>
> Agreed, sorry for my ignorance :(
>
> I duly corrected the git and reverted the other patch instead of yours.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
>
Makes sense. Thanks Linus