netdev - Re: Potential problem in drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c:_rtl_rx_pre

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Date:	Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:52:03 -0800
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@...lsil.com.cn>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: Potential problem in
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c:_rtl_rx_pre_process()

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 04:11:51PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 01/27/2013 03:18 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >while browsing through 'warning: variable ‘...’ set but not used' warnings, I
> >found the following code in drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c:_rtl_rx_pre_process().
> >
> >	while (!skb_queue_empty(&rx_queue)) {
> >         	_skb = skb_dequeue(&rx_queue);
> >		_rtl_usb_rx_process_agg(hw, skb);
> >		ieee80211_rx_irqsafe(hw, skb);
> >	}
> >
> >Question: Should the parameter to _rtl_usb_rx_process_agg() and
> >ieee80211_rx_irqsafe() be '_skb' instead of 'skb' ?
> 
> I think you are right and I will submit a patch to fix this.
> 
> What compiler version reported this? I use "gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.7.2
> 20130108 [gcc-4_7-branch revision 195012]" and I do not see this
> warning.
> 
Hi Larry,

I use "gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1) 4.7.2".

You'll see the warning if you build the kernel with W=1.

Guenter
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