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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@linuxcare.com.au>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:04:53 BST."
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 22:01:53 +1100
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011212300590.950-100000@penguin.homenet> you write:
> > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:25:01 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > 
> > > Quick removal of unnecessary initialization to 0.
> 
> Quite the contrary. The patch seems correct and useful to me. What do you
> think is wrong with it? (Linus accepted megabytes worth of the above in
> the past...)

What irritates about these monkey-see-monkey-do patches is that if I
initialize a variable to NULL, it's because my code actually relies on
it; I don't want that information eliminated.

Rusty.
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Hacking time.
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