(1/4) ieee1394 - uninitialize static variables

Hi.

One of the tasks at http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/TODO
is described as
"
uninitialize static variables initialized to 0, to make it go to the .bss, instead of .data.
"

To proof that it is still guaranteed that those variables will be initialized to zero

Tom Bradley <[email protected]> (on the kernel-janitors mailing list) wrote
"
the default for gcc is `-fzero-initialized-in-bss', the kernel makefile does not change this therefore bss is zeroed, this is documented in the gcc manpage.
"

and David P Howell <[email protected]> added that "
By definition .bss is always zero'ed by the implementation. "

This patch uninitializes a static int initialized to 0.

---
 drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.12/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c
===================================================================
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 /*
  * Disable the nodemgr detection and config rom reading functionality.
  */
-static int disable_nodemgr = 0;
+static int disable_nodemgr;
 module_param(disable_nodemgr, int, 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable_nodemgr, "Disable nodemgr functionality.");
 

Carlo Perassi - http://www.linux.it/~carlo/

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