[PATCH v4 2/9] clk: tegra: Add tegra specific clocks

Hiroshi Doyu hdoyu at nvidia.com
Thu Jan 17 00:03:27 EST 2013


Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote @ Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:11:24 +0100:

> >> +static int clk_frac_div_set_rate(struct clk_hw *hw, unsigned long rate,
> >> +                               unsigned long parent_rate)
> >> +{
> >> +       struct tegra_clk_frac_div *divider = to_clk_frac_div(hw);
> >> +       int div;
> >> +       unsigned long flags = 0;
> > 
> > nit, is "flags" not needed to initialize here?
> 
> It avoids a compiler warning; the compiler doesn't that the if condition
> that guards the path that uses flags is the same condition as the path
> that initializes it. Or, it may be related to the fact that
> spin_lock_irqsave() writes to the value through a pointer parameter, and
> the compiler doesn't know it's an out-only parameter.

It might be better to append the special comment /* GCC */[1] on that line.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/529954/



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