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From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
To: Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@nvidia.com>
Cc: "a.zummo@towertech.it" <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	"sameo@linux.intel.com" <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	"broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com" 
	<broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>,
	"kyle.manna@fuel7.com" <kyle.manna@fuel7.com>,
	"rtc-linux@googlegroups.com" <rtc-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: tps65910: Add RTC driver for TPS65910 PMIC RTC
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:06:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5016BF03.70805@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D958900912E20642BCBC71664EFECE3E6DDCAC4244@BGMAIL02.nvidia.com>

On 07/30/12 03:07, Venu Byravarasu wrote:
>
> +
> +static int __devinit tps65910_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> +	struct tps65910 *tps65910 = NULL;
> +	struct tps65910_rtc *tps_rtc = NULL;
> +	struct tps65910_board *pmic_plat_data;
> +	int ret = -EINVAL;
> +	int irq = 0;
> +	u32 rtc_reg;
>> It seems like all the above assignments are useless as they're
>> overwritten later in this function. Can you remove the assignments?
>>
> Some of the non-intelligent compilers/tools complain as variables 
> may get used uninitialized. Hence to avoid such complaints, initialized
> them to some default values.
> What harm do you see if I have local variables initialized during their declaration?

If you return early from a function and forget to give a variable a
value you actually want, you may use it pre-initialized with a bad
value. I would be surprised if a compiler complained about these ones
because they are simple assignments and they aren't under conditional
paths. If there is still a problem, you can use the uninitialized_var()
macro but I don't see why you would need to.

-- 
Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-30 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-26  6:35 [PATCH] rtc: tps65910: Add RTC driver for TPS65910 PMIC RTC Venu Byravarasu
2012-07-27 13:28 ` Samuel Ortiz
2012-07-30  9:16 ` Stephen Boyd
2012-07-30 10:07   ` Venu Byravarasu
2012-07-30 17:06     ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2012-08-14 23:52 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-16  5:48   ` Venu Byravarasu

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