On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:14:47AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 04.03.13 at 10:11, Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 07:55 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> >>> On 03.03.13 at 11:20, Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> For one, a fix for the (indeed valid) compiler warning has been in > >> Konrad's tree for several days > >> > > (http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git/commit/drivers/bl > > ock/xen-blkback/blkback.c?id=a72d9002f80bffd7e4c7d60e5a9caa0cddffe894). > > > > Thanks. (For the record: that commit is titled "xen/xen-blkback: > > preq.dev is used without initialized".) > > > >> And second, there's nothing really being fixed with the patch in > >> question here. The title is kind of misleading, as the handle > >> coming from the frontend is - without said patch - in the worst > >> case being used for the very message that triggered the > >> compiler warning. Nothing else is affected, the code just gave > >> the impression that the handle was used. Which it actually is not, unless somebody compiles the kernel with #define DEBUG 1 at the top of the file. > >> > >> IOW I don't see why this got proposed for stable at all. > > > > So, you suggest to just drop this patch for v3.8.3, don't you? > > I do, yes. But I'd suggest to get Konrad to agree. Yes. Lets drop it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html