Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the wireless-drivers-next tree

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Mon Nov 28 2016 - 02:25:46 EST


Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> After merging the wireless-drivers-next tree, today's linux-next build
> (x86_64 allmodconfig) produced this warning:
>
> In file included from include/linux/usb/ch9.h:35:0,
> from include/linux/usb.h:5,
> from drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c:32:
> drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c: In function 'rtl8xxxu_fill_txdesc_v2':
> include/linux/device.h:1214:36: warning: 'rate' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> #define dev_info(dev, fmt, arg...) _dev_info(dev, fmt, ##arg)
> ^
> drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c:4841:6: note: 'rate' was declared here
> u32 rate;
> ^
>
> Introduced by commit
>
> b4c3d9cfb607 ("rtl8xxxu: Pass tx_info to fill_txdesc in order to have access to retry count")
>
> This is a correct diagnosis.

Thanks for the report. Jes, can you send a patch to fix this? (Unless
someone else beats to it.)

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Kalle Valo