RE: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 9/12] IPMI: add pigeonpoint poweroff

From: Bela Lubkin
Date: Sun Dec 03 2006 - 23:01:56 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Sometime, please go through the IPMI code looking for all these
> > statically-allocated things which are initialised to 0 or NULL and remove
> > all those intialisations? They're unneeded, they increase the vmlinux
> > image size and there are quite a number of them. Thanks.

Randy Dunlop replied:

> I was just about to send that patch. Here it is,
> on top of the series-of-12.
...
> -static int bt_debug = BT_DEBUG_OFF;
> +static int bt_debug;

Is it wise to significantly degrade code readability to work around a minor
compiler / linker bug?

>Bela<
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