linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core patches for 5.1-rc1

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Date:   Wed, 6 Mar 2019 16:19:13 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>,
        David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core patches for 5.1-rc1

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 4:09 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> >
> > This is very funky, but that commit generates a new warning in a
> > totally unrelated area:
>
> Very very funky.
>
> Are you sure it's the __cold marking of an
> entirely unrelated function that isn't
> even used in the code with the new warning?

Yup, I bisected it, because it made no sense at all. There were no
changes to the driver itself in that pull request, but there was a new
warning.

> btw; what compiler version?

  gcc version 8.2.1 20181215 (Red Hat 8.2.1-6) (GCC)

FWIW,

               Linus