netdev - Re: adm80211: Removed unused 'io_addr' 'mem

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Message-Id: <20161129153206.0E7EF611A6@smtp.codeaurora.org>
Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:32:06 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Kirtika Ruchandani <kirtika.ruchandani@...il.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: adm80211: Removed unused 'io_addr' 'mem_addr' variables

Kirtika Ruchandani <kirtika.ruchandani@...il.com> wrote:
> Initial commit cc0b88cf5ecf ([PATCH] Add adm8211 802.11b wireless driver)
> introduced variables mem_addr and io_addr in adm80211_probe() that are
> set but not used. Compiling with W=1 gives the following warnings,
> fix them.
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/admtek/adm8211.c: In function ‘adm8211_probe’:
> drivers/net/wireless/admtek/adm8211.c:1769:15: warning: variable ‘io_addr’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>   unsigned int io_addr, io_len;
>                ^
> drivers/net/wireless/admtek/adm8211.c:1768:16: warning: variable ‘mem_addr’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>   unsigned long mem_addr, mem_len;
>                 ^
> 
> These are harmless warnings and are only being fixed to reduce the
> noise with W=1 in the kernel. The calls to pci_resource_start do not
> have any side-effects and are safe to remove.
> 
> Fixes: cc0b88cf5ecf ("[PATCH] Add adm8211 802.11b wireless driver")
> Cc: Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>
> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kirtika Ruchandani <kirtika@...omium.org>

The patch failed to apply:

fatal: corrupt patch at line 14
Applying: adm80211: Removed unused 'io_addr' 'mem_addr' variables
Repository lacks necessary blobs to fall back on 3-way merge.
Cannot fall back to three-way merge.
Patch failed at 0001 adm80211: Removed unused 'io_addr' 'mem_addr' variables

Patch set to Changes Requested.

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9444901/

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