netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/9] network driver fixes

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Message-ID: <3029473.9UEV1vNhFu@wuerfel>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:56:16 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] network driver fixes

On Thursday 28 January 2016 16:14:13 David Miller wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:04:50 +0100
> 
> > These are all fixes for relatively harmless bugs that showed up
> > in my randconfig testing, so they should not be needed for v4.5
> > but get merged into net-next.
> > 
> > I've managed to address all 'uninitialized variable' warnings that
> > I get in ARM randconfig kernels now, this series includes the
> > last five I got in network drivers. They are often really annoying
> > warnings but when we get new ones, they often are about actual
> > bugs in corner cases, so I'm trying hard to eliminate the false
> > positives here to get people to pay attention to added warnings.
> > I've recently tried building with an older gcc and found tons more
> > that are all bogus, this series only addresses the ones that
> > gcc-5.2 finds.
> 
> Arnd I'm expecting a respin of this series to address with the
> feedback you've been given.
> 

Done. I wasn't sure if you planned to pick up the patches
individually, thanks for the clarification.

	Arnd