From: Carlo Perassi Subject: [KJ] [PATCH] (4/4) ieee1394 - uninitialize static variables 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 (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 added that " By definition .bss is always zero'ed by the implementation. " This patch uninitializes two static int initialized to 0. Signed-off-by: Carlo Perassi --- sbp2.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: quilt/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c =================================================================== --- quilt.orig/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c +++ quilt/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_speed, "Force max s * down to us at a time (debugging). This might be necessary for very * badly behaved sbp2 devices. */ -static int serialize_io = 0; +static int serialize_io; module_param(serialize_io, int, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(serialize_io, "Serialize all I/O coming down from the scsi drivers (default = 0)"); @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(exclusive_login, "Exclu * please submit the logged sbp2_firmware_revision value of this device to * the linux1394-devel mailing list. */ -static int force_inquiry_hack = 0; +static int force_inquiry_hack; module_param(force_inquiry_hack, int, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(force_inquiry_hack, "Force SCSI inquiry hack (default = 0)");