Looks like this is the compiler's fault to me..but might be worth explicitly initializing the sta variable just to make it quiet. CC [M] net/mac80211/mlme.o /home/greearb/git/linux.wireless-testing/net/mac80211/mlme.c: In function ‘ieee80211_prep_connection’: /home/greearb/git/linux.wireless-testing/net/mac80211/mlme.c:3058: warning: ‘sta’ may be used uninitialized in this function CC [M] net/mac80211/debugfs.o CC [M] net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.o -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html