Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:48:42 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
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        "fmhess@users.sourceforge.net" <fmhess@users.sourceforge.net>,
        Ian Abbott <ian.abbott@mev.co.uk>,
        "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: serial2002: quiet NULL pointer sparse
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 10:07:30AM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> I wonder if it also issues that warning for a struct initializer such as
> {0} where the first member of the struct is a pointer, or would it
> expect you to use {NULL} which is more confusing when the struct
> contains a mixture of pointer and non-pointer members?
> 

It does warn about that.  The fix is to just say:

	struct foo bar = {};

regards,
dan carpenter
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