[PATCH 2/2] PCI: iproc: avoid maybe-uninitialized warning
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Tue Nov 22 13:15:08 PST 2016
On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 9:45:24 AM CET Ray Jui wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c
> > index 857ff5198317..0359569c8d78 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c
> > @@ -936,6 +936,7 @@ static int iproc_pcie_setup_ib(struct iproc_pcie *pcie,
> >
> > }
> > }
> > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > err_ib:
> > dev_err(dev, "unable to configure inbound mapping\n");
> > dev_err(dev, "axi %pap, pci %pap, res size %pap\n",
> >
>
> This change is good, but in my opinion, a further improvement for
> clarity would be to initialize 'ret' to -EINVAL in the beginning of this
> function when 'ret' is declared. What do you think?
>
I never do that, see https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=232 for a great
explanation about why.
Arnd
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