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Date:	Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:57:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tklauser@...tanz.ch
Cc:	grundler@...isc-linux.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: de4x5: Omit check for multicast bit in
 netdev_for_each_mc_addr

From: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:16:00 +0200

> There is no need to check for the address being a multicast address in
> the netdev_for_each_mc_addr loop, so remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>

Please build test your patches!

> @@ -1954,7 +1954,6 @@ SetMulticastFilter(struct net_device *dev)
>      u16 hashcode;
>      u32 omr, crc;
>      char *pa;
> -    unsigned char *addrs;
>  
>      omr = inl(DE4X5_OMR);
>      omr &= ~(OMR_PR | OMR_PM);

You removed this local variable 'addrs' but you did not remove
all uses of that variable, so the build will fail.
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