Author: Supriya Karanth <iskaranth@gmail.com> static ints are initialized to 0 by the compiler. Explicit initialization is not necessary. Found by checkpatch.pl – ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL changes made using coccinelle script: @@ type T; identifier var; @@ static T var – =0 ; Signed-off-by: Supriya Karanth Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman — …