From: Liu Jian <liujia...@huawei.com> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:59:45 +0800
> Suppress a bunch of warnings of the form: > > drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c:100:13: warning: initialized field > overwritten [-Woverride-init] > > This is because after the sh_eth_offset_xxx array is initialized to > SH_ETH_OFFSET_INVALID, > some specific register_offsets are re-initialized. It wasn't a mistake. > > Signed-off-by: Liu Jian <liujia...@huawei.com> Even if I agreed with this approach to the fix, you can't just blindly add a CFLAG option. What if the compile doesn't understand or support that option? I leave it to the patch submitter to grep the Makefiles in the tree to learn how to handle this situation properly, because that's how I learned what the right thing to do since I wasn't sure. But in the end I think just sticking a warning disable here and there isn't the solution. I think this driver should explicitly initialize the array entries that are invalid on each and every chip. No only does that get rid of the warnings cleanly, but it also more clearly documents the available register set. Currently you have to walk each and every enumeration value in the sh_eth.h header and see if the table has it or not, in order to figure out which registers are _not_ present for a chip. Thank you.
