netdev - Re: [PATCH] selftests: tls: fix read/write of garbage value

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Message-ID: <aSsUAvnn9dnwk91E@fedora>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:10:50 +0530
From: Ankit Khushwaha <ankitkhushwaha.linux@...il.com>
To: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: tls: fix read/write of garbage value

On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 11:22:06AM +0100, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> I'm not opposed to making the compiler happy, but in this case
> "garbage" is completely fine, we don't care about the value.
> 
> So I think the subject and the commit message should talk about
> "silencing a compiler warning" rather than "fixing use of garbage
> value".
 
> And your patch should indicate the target tree in the subject (here,
> with [PATCH net-next]), see
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/maintainer-netdev.html

Hi Sabrina,
thanks for the review, i will send a v2 patch with suggested changes.

--
Ankit