Re: [0/3] lenovo-sl-laptop : new driver for drivers/staging

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:35:32AM -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We will be happy to review the driver in linux-acpi.  Submitting it as
> > a single patch against latest Linus is probably best.
> 
> I think I found the fan speed interface; I will resubmit to linux-acpi
> after I finish it.
> 
> > Oh, and it
> > should be checkpatch-clean if it isn't already.
> 
> Checkpatch complains about static variables initialized to 0. Since
> it's my first time writing kernel code, I have to ask what are
> probably obvious questions.
> 1. Why is initializing a static variable to 0 bad? or worse than
> initializing that variable to 1, or -1?
> 2. If I want to have a module parameter whose default value is 0, what
> should I do to stop checkpatch from complaining?

Static variables are initialized to zero automatically.

	static int foo;

is equivalent to

	static int foo = 0;