On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 04:15:17PM -0400, Kevin McKinney wrote:
> This patch fixes one white space issue and two
> initialization errors in file, InterfaceDld.c,
> found by checkpatch.pl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin McKinney <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceDld.c |   11 +++++++----
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceDld.c 
> b/drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceDld.c
> index 6f58fb5..7ac52ad 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceDld.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceDld.c
> @@ -38,17 +38,18 @@ int InterfaceFileDownload(PVOID arg, struct file *flp, 
> unsigned int on_chip_loc)
>       return errno;
>  }
>  
> -int InterfaceFileReadbackFromChip(PVOID arg, struct file *flp,       
> unsigned int on_chip_loc)
> +int InterfaceFileReadbackFromChip(PVOID arg, struct file *flp, unsigned int 
> on_chip_loc)
>  {
>       char *buff, *buff_readback;
>       unsigned int reg = 0;
>       mm_segment_t oldfs = {0};
>       int errno = 0, len = 0, is_config_file = 0;
>       loff_t pos = 0;
> -     static int fw_down = 0;
> +     static int fw_down;
>       INT Status = STATUS_SUCCESS;
>       PS_INTERFACE_ADAPTER psIntfAdapter = (PS_INTERFACE_ADAPTER)arg;
>  
> +     fw_down = 0;

This will break things.

Check patch is complaining because static variables are initialized
to zero by default, so the extra initializer servers no purpose.
fw_down is supposed to count things, but your patch always sets it
to zero.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_variable

regards,
dan carpenter

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