[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] USB: get rid of warning when compile with debug enabled

Bo Shen voice.shen at atmel.com
Wed Aug 27 09:39:04 CEST 2014


Hi Marek,

On 08/26/2014 02:46 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 03:11:13 AM, Bo Shen wrote:
>> Hi Marek,
>>
>> On 08/25/2014 06:43 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> On Monday, August 25, 2014 at 11:23:19 AM, Bo Shen wrote:
>>>> When compile with debug information is enabled, if call
>>>> spin_lock_irqsave, it will give following warning information.
>>>> This patch is used to get rid of it.
>>>> --->8---
>>>> warning: 'flags' is used uninitialized in this function
>>>> [-Wuninitialized] ---8<---
>>>
>>> The patch is wrong. The compiler complains that flags might be used
>>> uninited because that is the case -- you call spin_lock_irqsave() with
>>> uninited flags and because debug() is expanded to printf() I guess, the
>>> compiler spews.
>>>
>>> So which file does this warning come from ?
>>
>> I enable debug information (In common.h, define the DEBUG).
>>
>> It comes out from usb gadget driver, for example, atmel_usba_udc.c and
>> also s3c_udc_otg.c and etc.
>
> Then those need fixing. There is no problem with the macro.
>
>> I see the spin_lock_irqsave() function in
>> <drivers/usb/musb-new/linux-compat.h> defined as:
>> --->8---
>> #define spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags) do {} while (0)
>> ---8<---
>>
>> As in u-boot, there is no lock actually, so I think we can fix it as
>> <drivers/usb/musb-new/linux-compat.h>, or use the patch as I suggest, or
>> anything else, what about your opinion?
>
> Fix all the offending drivers which pass uninited variable into macro which
> might use it. That's the fix.

Thanks for your opinion.

I will send out the patch as you suggested to fix this issue.

> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut
>

Best Regards,
Bo Shen


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