2009-07-21 02:34:50

by Subrata Modak

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Subject: [PATCH 05/06][RESEND] Fix compilation warning for arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c

The following fix was initially inspired by David Howells fix few days back:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/9/109,

However, Ingo disapproves such fixes as it's dangerous - in something as
performance-uncritical. So, initialize 'err' to '0' to work around a GCC false
positive warning:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/18/89,

Signed-off-by: Subrata Modak<[email protected]>
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--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c 2009-06-15 07:50:51.000000000 +0530
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c 2009-07-15 06:43:59.000000000 +0530
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ static int apm_do_idle(void)
u8 ret = 0;
int idled = 0;
int polling;
- int err;
+ int err = 0;

polling = !!(current_thread_info()->status & TS_POLLING);
if (polling) {

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Regards--
Subrata