netdev - Re: [patch] usbnet: smsc95xx: silence an uninitialized variable warning

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Message-Id: <20160504.170001.1649317898691832917.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 04 May 2016 17:00:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:	steve.glendinning@...well.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] usbnet: smsc95xx: silence an uninitialized variable
 warning

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 09:22:01 +0300

> If the call to fn() fails then "buf" is uninitialized.  Just return the
> error code in that case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied.

Please, in the future, use a consistent subsystem prefixing scheme.  In these
two patches you used "x/y:"" and "x: y:"

Thanks.