On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 03:21:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 09:26:41AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 06:42:48PM +0100, Build bot for Mark Brown wrote:
>>
>> > > Warnings Summary: 1
>> > > 1 ../drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-of.c:216:4: warning: 'remote_np' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>>
>> > I'm guessing that same warning is also in Linus's tree?
>>
>> Not currently, Linus' tree (and -next) are totally clean in my builds.
>> It does look like it was in baseline v4.13 though.
>
> Hm, it looks like 0b2e9e7947e7 ("media: staging/imx: remove confusing
> IS_ERR_OR_NULL usage") moved things around a bit so that gcc now can
> tell that this variable is used.
>
> I'll just ignore it for now, that commit isn't really a good one for
> stable trees.
I just sent a trivial workaround for v4.13. Sorry for not having addressed
this earlier, my test box had the patch that went upstream in 4.14, so I
failed to see this in my own build reports.
Arnd