[PATCH] drm/amd/amdgpu: Remove initialisation of globals to 0 or NULL

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 18:41:55 UTC 2023


On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:11 PM Srinivasan Shanmugam
<srinivasan.shanmugam at amd.com> wrote:
>
> Global variables do not need to be initialized to 0 or NULL and checkpatch
> flags this error in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c:
>
> ERROR: do not initialise globals to NULL
> +char *amdgpu_disable_cu = NULL;
> +char *amdgpu_virtual_display = NULL;
>
> Fix this checkpatch error.
>
> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
> Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello at amd.com>
> Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <Hamza.Mahfooz at amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivasan Shanmugam <srinivasan.shanmugam at amd.com>

Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c
> index 917926c8dc5f5..ece8033dbad29 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c
> @@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ uint amdgpu_pcie_lane_cap;
>  u64 amdgpu_cg_mask = 0xffffffffffffffff;
>  uint amdgpu_pg_mask = 0xffffffff;
>  uint amdgpu_sdma_phase_quantum = 32;
> -char *amdgpu_disable_cu = NULL;
> -char *amdgpu_virtual_display = NULL;
> +char *amdgpu_disable_cu;
> +char *amdgpu_virtual_display;
>
>  /*
>   * OverDrive(bit 14) disabled by default
> --
> 2.25.1
>


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