[PATCH] deprecated.rst: Remove now removed uninitialized_var
From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Aug 26 2020 - 23:12:18 EST
It's now gone from the kernel so remove it from the deprecated API text.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 18 ------------------
1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
index 918e32d76fc4..70720f00b9aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
@@ -51,24 +51,6 @@ to make sure their systems do not continue running in the face of
"unreachable" conditions. (For example, see commits like `this one
<https://git.kernel.org/linus/d4689846881d160a4d12a514e991a740bcb5d65a>`_.)
-uninitialized_var()
--------------------
-For any compiler warnings about uninitialized variables, just add
-an initializer. Using the uninitialized_var() macro (or similar
-warning-silencing tricks) is dangerous as it papers over `real bugs
-<https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@xxxxxxxxxx/>`_
-(or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings
-(e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized,
-either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes. Keep in
-mind that in most cases, if an initialization is obviously redundant,
-the compiler's dead-store elimination pass will make sure there are no
-needless variable writes.
-
-As Linus has said, this macro
-`must <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/>`_
-`be <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/>`_
-`removed <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/>`_.
-
open-coded arithmetic in allocator arguments
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Dynamic size calculations (especially multiplication) should not be