On Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:18:42 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz> wrote:

> On 10/01/2014 10:16 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> >> On 09/29/2014 05:30 AM, Xiubo Li wrote:
> >> > Setting 'flags' to zero will be certainly a misleading way to avoid
> >> > warning of 'flags' may be used uninitialized. uninitialized_var is
> >> > a correct way because the warning is a false possitive.
> >> 
> >> Agree.
> >> 
> >> > Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <li.xi...@freescale.com>
> >> 
> >> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
> >> 
> > 
> > I thought we just discussed this when 
> > mm-compaction-fix-warning-of-flags-may-be-used-uninitialized.patch was 
> > merged and, although I liked it, it was stated that we shouldn't add any 
> > new users of uninitialized_var().
> 
> Yeah but that discussion wasn't unfortunately CC'd on mailing lists. And my
> interpretation of the outcome is that maybe we should try :)
> 

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/27/71

I disagree, can't be bothered getting into a fight over it.  I do tend
to accidentally let new uses sneak into the tree, but this one is a bit
obvious.

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