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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:10:41 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: InfiniBand-ocrdma: Delete unnecessary variable initialisations
 in 11 functions
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Doing bogus initializations turns off GCC's checking for uninitialized
variables so it's a bad habbit.

On the other hand, GCC's checking is not perfect and it sometimes misses
bugs so these patches have to be reviewed manually which is maybe too
much work to be worthwhile.

regards,
dan carpenter