brcmfmac: avoid gcc-5.1 warning

Kalle Valo kvalo at codeaurora.org
Tue May 26 03:54:10 PDT 2015


> gcc-5.0 gained a new warning in the fwsignal portion of the brcmfmac
> driver:
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c: In function 'brcmf_fws_txs_process':
> drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c:1478:8: warning: 'skb' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> 
> This is a false positive, and marking the brcmf_fws_hanger_poppkt function
> as 'static inline' makes the warning go away. I have checked the object
> file output and while a little code gets moved around, the size of
> the binary remains identical.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.

Kalle Valo



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