Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mac80211: silent build warnings

From: Ying Xue <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 09:00:42 +0800

On 01/08/2015 08:59 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 1/8/2015 10:04 AM, Ying Xue wrote:
> 
>> Silent the following build warnings:
> 
>> net/mac80211/mlme.c: In function ‘ieee80211_rx_mgmt_beacon’:
>> net/mac80211/mlme.c:1348:3: warning: ‘pwr_level_cisco’ may be used
>> uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
>> net/mac80211/mlme.c:1315:6: note: ‘pwr_level_cisco’ was declared here
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>   net/mac80211/mlme.c |    2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
>> diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
>> index 2c36c47..13b5506 100644
>> --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
>> +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
>> @@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ static u32 ieee80211_handle_pwr_constr(struct
>> ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
>>   {
>>       bool has_80211h_pwr = false, has_cisco_pwr = false;
>>       int chan_pwr = 0, pwr_reduction_80211h = 0;
>> -    int pwr_level_cisco, pwr_level_80211h;
>> +    int pwr_level_cisco = 0, pwr_level_80211h = 0;
> 
>    OK, but why are you also initializing the second variable?
> 

Although the second variable is not warned in above compile warning
message, but it should be if we take a look at the code associated with it.

However, as Johannes confirmed, the first change is unnecessary at all.
So please ignore the patch.

Thanks,
Ying

> WBR, Sergei
> 
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