From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 06:45:58 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: [PATCH] ppx32: Fix uninitialized variable in set_preferred_console
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.12-rc5~41
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=45fed46f5b98aaf439e9ef125992ec853cd98499;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git

[PATCH] ppx32: Fix uninitialized variable in set_preferred_console

This fixes an uninitialized variable warning in arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c,
and this time gcc is actually right, there is a path that could result
in offset being uninitialized.  Zero is a sane default in this instance.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c b/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c
index 309797d7f96..5c20266e3b1 100644
--- a/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static int __init set_preferred_console(void)
 {
 	struct device_node *prom_stdout;
 	char *name;
-	int offset;
+	int offset = 0;
 
 	if (of_stdout_device == NULL)
 		return -ENODEV;