Hi Steffen,
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:45:55AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> >
> > drivers/net/3c59x.c: In function 'vortex_up':
> > drivers/net/3c59x.c:1495: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function
>
> This came in with the recently applied 3c59x-check-return-of-pci_enable_device patch
> from Mark Hindley. I just compiled it on a PCI only machine so far, therefore I did
> not notice the warning yet.
Hmm, the .config I built with had PCI=y as well. Probably a compiler
version difference -- Jeff also mentioned yesterday that some newer
GCC versions fail to warn about uninitialized variables cases.
> > is a genuine bug. The function returns an uninitialized value of 'err'
> > back to the caller, which expects it to be 0 for success cases. Let's
> > fix this by explicitly initializing 'err' to zero.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <[email protected]>
Thanks,
Satyam
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