Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

[Russell King]

Kai Germaschewski writes:
> The patch is right, the explanation was wrong. Sorry, I didn't CC l-k when
> I found what was really going on. Other source files used a global
> initialized variable "divert_if" as well, so this became the same one as
> the one referenced in isdn_common.c.  That's why it wasn't zero, it was
> explicitly initialized elsewhere. However, making divert_if static in
> isdn_common.c fixes the problem, because now it's really local to this
> file and therefore initialized to NULL.

Maybe someone should compile the kernel with everything built in and
-fno-common to catch stuff like this?  Maybe we should always compile
the kernel with -fno-common?
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