Re: [PATCH] staging: mm: Fix ERROR:do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL in memblock.c

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Nov 01 2021 - 10:41:58 EST


On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 03:47:19PM +0530, Kushal Kothari wrote:
> The default value of static variable is zero and bool is false so
> not need to set it here.
> This patch fixes this ERROR in memblock.c

Why does the subject line say "staging"? What tool reports this as an
"ERROR"?

> Signed-off-by: Kushal Kothari <kushalkothari285@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memblock.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> index 5c3503c98b2f..57b9153b2278 100644
> --- a/mm/memblock.c
> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
> #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
> #include <linux/seq_file.h>
> #include <linux/memblock.h>
> -
> +#include<stdbool.h>

Why are you including stdbool here? Why do you not justify it in the
changelog?