netdev - Re: net: gcc-6.0 warning fixes

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Message-Id: <20160314.131048.1220349879118085878.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:10:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: gcc-6.0 warning fixes

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:18:33 +0100

> I've just installed gcc-6.0 to see what kinds of new warnings
> we get. It turns out that it's actually really useful once I
> disabled -Wunused-const-variable, and all of the warnings it
> found in network drivers seem valid.
> 
> Sorry for the bad timing in the merge window, but I figured
> it would be better to send the fixes as I found the bugs
> rather than waiting for the next cycle. The first three
> look appropriate for stable backports.
> 
> The other two only fix a gcc warning about incorrect whitespace,
> probably not worth backporting those.

Series applied, and patches 1, 2, and 3 queued up for -stable.

Thanks.