From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
minyard@acm.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
OpenIPMI Developers <openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] IPMI: Fix some uninitialized warning
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:41:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508AE611.3020504@mvista.com>
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> wrote:
>
> I'll do a patch to switch it to uninitialized_var() for the next set of
> things I send. Thanks.
Actually, I'm seriously considering getting rid of uninitialized_var().
The thing is an abomination, and we've already had one bug due to it
(real uninitialized variable that was incorrectly hidden by
uninitialized_var()).
The thing is moronic. The whole thing is almost entirely due to
compiler bugs (*stupid* gcc behavior), and we would have been better
off with an explicit (unnecessary) initialization that at least
doesn't cause random crashes etc if it turns out to be wrong.
So please don't use that abortion. Just initialize things to
0/NULL/whatever if gcc complains and you want to get rid of them.
Better than the crap that is uninitialized_var(), which just causes
silent random behavior if it is wrong.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-26 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-16 20:53 IPMI: Some minor fixes minyard
2012-10-16 20:53 ` [PATCH 1/5] IPMI: Remove SMBus driver info from the docs minyard
2012-10-16 20:53 ` [PATCH 2/5] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers minyard
2012-10-22 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-23 0:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-23 0:07 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-23 0:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-16 20:53 ` [PATCH 3/5] IPMI: Change link order minyard
2012-10-16 20:53 ` [PATCH 4/5] IPMI: Fix some uninitialized warning minyard
2012-10-22 23:49 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-26 19:35 ` Corey Minyard
2012-10-26 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2012-10-27 13:12 ` [PATCH] Remove uninitialized_var() Ingo Molnar
2012-10-27 18:48 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-28 10:20 ` [PATCH v2] " Ingo Molnar
2012-10-29 0:56 ` Ryan Mallon
2012-10-29 6:36 ` [PATCH v3] " Ingo Molnar
2012-10-29 18:55 ` [PATCH v2] " David Rientjes
2012-10-30 7:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-10-16 20:53 ` [PATCH 5/5] IPMI: Detect register spacing on PCI interfaces minyard
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