Hi,
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 16:01, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > + u64 rpage = 0;
> > + int ret;
> > + int cnt = 0;
> > + void *vpage = NULL;
> > +
> > + ret = hw_queue_ctor(hw_queue, nr_pages, EHEA_PAGESIZE, wqe_size);
> > + if (ret)
> > + return ret;
> > +
> > + for (cnt = 0; cnt < nr_pages; cnt++) {
> > + vpage = hw_qpageit_get_inc(hw_queue);
> > + if (!vpage) {
> > + ehea_error("hw_qpageit_get_inc failed");
> > + goto qp_alloc_register_exit0;
> > + }
> > + rpage = virt_to_abs(vpage);
>
> As someone mentioned before, the initialization to 0 or NULL
> is pointless here, as the variables are always assigned before
> they are used. There are a number of other places in your
> code that do similar things, you should probably go through
> these and remove the initializers.
>
> If you indeed need something to be initialized, it is good practice
> to do the initialization as late as possible, e.g.
>
> int foo;
> ...
> foo = 0;
> do_foo(foo);
>
> to make it clear that you have a reason to initialize it.
>
> Arnd <><
>
Agreed. We started to remove some but apparrently not all.
We'll go through the code and remove them where possible.
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