netdev - Re: [iproute PATCH v2 1/7] devlink: No need for this self-assignment

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Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2017 21:48:50 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Cc:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH v2 1/7] devlink: No need for this self-assignment

Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 07:09:25PM CEST, phil@....cc wrote:
>dl_argv_handle_both() will either assign to handle_bit or error out in
>which case the variable is not used by the caller.

I'm pretty sure that I did this to silence the compiler. If the compiler
bug is fixed now, good.

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>