[PATCH] ppc64: fix prom.c compile warning

The code in unflatten_device_tree knows that get_property is written to
only return with lenp equal to 1 when also returning a valid pointer.
The gcc 3.3.3 compiler is not able to prove this to itself, so it warns
about a possible uninitialized pointer dereference:

 .../arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c: In function `unflatten_device_tree':
 .../arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c:828:
 warning: `p' might be used uninitialized in this function

Unless it is desired to rework the interaction between the two
functions, this will keep the existing behavior but quiet the compiler.

Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c b/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c
index fe2946c..eb6538b 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ void __init unflatten_device_tree(void)
 {
        unsigned long start, mem, size;
        struct device_node **allnextp = &allnodes;
-       char *p;
+       char *p = NULL;
        int l = 0;
 
        DBG(" -> unflatten_device_tree()\n");