Re: [PATCH] net: bnxt: always return values from _bnxt_get_max_rings

From	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] net: bnxt: always return values from _bnxt_get_max_rings
Date	2016-01-12 22:50 +0100
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:05:08 +0100

> Newly added code in the bnxt driver uses a couple of variables that
> are never initialized when CONFIG_BNXT_SRIOV is not set, and gcc
> correctly warns about that:
> 
> In file included from include/linux/list.h:8:0,
>                  from include/linux/module.h:9,
>                  from drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c:10:
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c: In function 'bnxt_get_max_rings':
> include/linux/kernel.h:794:26: warning: 'cp' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> include/linux/kernel.h:794:26: warning: 'tx' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c:5730:11: warning: 'rx' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c:5736:6: note: 'rx' was declared here
> 
> This changes the condition so that we fall back to using the PF
> data if VF is not available, and always initialize the variables
> to something useful.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Fixes: 6e6c5a57fbe1 ("bnxt_en: Modify bnxt_get_max_rings() to support shared or non shared rings.")

Applied, thanks Arnd.

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[PATCH] net: bnxt: always return values from _bnxt_get_max_rings Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-01-12 16:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] net: bnxt: always return values from  _bnxt_get_max_rings Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> - 2016-01-12 19:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] net: bnxt: always return values from  _bnxt_get_max_rings David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-01-12 22:50 +0100

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