[lm-sensors] [PATCH] Add MAX6650 support

[Hans-Jürgen Koch]

Am Freitag, 16. März 2007 22:19 schrieb Thomas Gleixner:
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 22:07 +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
> > > > /* fan_voltage: 5=5V fan, 12=12V fan, 0=don't change */
> > > > static int fan_voltage = 0;
> > > > /* prescaler: Possible values are 1,2,4,8,16, or 0 for don't change
> > > > */ static int prescaler = 0;
> > >
> > > The trick is to _not_ initialize these variables at all. The compiler
> > > will put them in a special section and will zero them all at once
> > > automatically.
> >
> > Sounds dangerous. But I trust you :-)
>
> It's one of the things which actually work reliable in gcc :)
>
> 	tglx

Fine, I'll remember that. But I think readability is better if you explicitly 
initialize to zero. Is that optimization really worth it?

Hans