Re: 2.5.47: Uninitialized timer in bttv code

[Andrew Morton]

"Udo A. Steinberg" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The bttv code in 2.5.47 triggers the following warning about use of
> uninitialized timer here. If a patch exists for this issue, I'll happily
> test it.
> 

Here you go.

I need to do another full pass across the tree to pick up the dynamically
allocated timers.

--- 25/drivers/media/video/bttv-driver.c~bttv-timer	Mon Nov 11 10:02:49 2002
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/media/video/bttv-driver.c	Mon Nov 11 10:03:03 2002
@@ -3225,6 +3225,7 @@ static int __devinit bttv_probe(struct p
         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&btv->capture);
         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&btv->vcapture);
 
+	init_timer(&btv->timeout);
 	btv->timeout.function = bttv_irq_timeout;
 	btv->timeout.data     = (unsigned long)btv;
 	

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