[PATCH] Fixed coding style: do not initialise statics to NULL

Hans Verkuil hverkuil at xs4all.nl
Fri Apr 12 10:48:40 UTC 2019


Hi Tiago,

On 4/12/19 4:45 AM, Tiago Macedo wrote:
> The standard guarantees that a pointer with static storage duration
> and no other initializer will be initialized to be a null pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tiago Macedo <tiagohenrique.macedo at gmai.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/media/zoran/videocodec.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/zoran/videocodec.c b/drivers/staging/media/zoran/videocodec.c
> index c1ee5cb7e66b..cc6e0f1cd7b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/zoran/videocodec.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/zoran/videocodec.c
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ struct codec_list {
>  	struct codec_list *next;
>  };
>  
> -static struct codec_list *codeclist_top = NULL;
> +static struct codec_list *codeclist_top;
>  
>  /* ================================================= */
>  /* function prototypes of the master/slave interface */
> 

I dropped this patch since the zoran driver will be removed for 5.2,
so there is no point in applying this patch.

Also, for future reference, please provide the name of the driver that
you are patching in the subject. I.e. something like this:

[PATCH] zoran: fixed coding style: do not initialise statics to NULL

That helps triage for maintainers.

Regards,

	Hans


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