Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753902AbZA0Jeb (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:34:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751423AbZA0JeX (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:34:23 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45724 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751095AbZA0JeW (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:34:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:34:20 +0100 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Jean Delvare Cc: Rufus & Azrael , Linux-kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Jaswinder Singh Rajput Subject: Re: [2.6.29-rc2-git2] compilation warnings In-Reply-To: <20090127094628.670eca16@hyperion.delvare> References: <497EB491.6080904@numericable.fr> <20090127094628.670eca16@hyperion.delvare> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.3 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1083 Lines: 31 At Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:46:28 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:32:17 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:15:29 +0100, > > Rufus & Azrael wrote: > > > > > > Here are my compilation warnings for fresh 2.6.29-rc2-git2 kernel : > > > > > > > sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c: In function ‘get_empty_pcm_device’: > > > > sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2544: attention : ‘dev’ may be used > > > > uninitialized in this function > > > > A bogus warning. Ignore this. > > No matter how bogus it is, it should be fixed. Otherwise this is > wasting the time of users and developers over and over again. Well, it's a bug of gcc appearing only in a certain version, so most people won't see it. Of course, we can put uninitialized_var(). But, I don't basically like adding it unconditionally... Takashi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/