[patch] ftape: shut up gcc - warning about possibly uninitialized var in drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-io.c

Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:49:22 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.tape
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tiny patch whose only purpose in life is to shut up gcc below 
(initializing flags to zero serves no real purpose in this function, so 
this really is just a 'shut up gcc' patch) : 

This is the warning it will elliminate : 
drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-io.c:93: warning: 'flags' might be used uninitialized in this function

Apply if you want, if you don't that's just fine too :)


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>

diff -up linux-2.6.10-bk9-orig/drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-format.c linux-2.6.10-bk9/drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-format.c
--- linux-2.6.10-bk9-orig/drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-format.c	2004-12-24 22:34:45.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.10-bk9/drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-format.c	2005-01-07 00:43:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static void setup_format_buffer(buffer_s
  */
 int ftape_format_track(const unsigned int track, const __u8 gap3)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
+	unsigned long flags = 0;
 	buffer_struct *tail, *head;
 	int status;
 	TRACE_FUN(ft_t_flow);