[PATCH 3/3] bcm63xx_enet: avoid uninitialized variable warning
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Fri Jan 20 08:46:00 PST 2017
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:52:53 +0100
> gcc-7 and probably earlier versions get confused by this function
> and print a harmless warning:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c: In function 'bcm_enet_open':
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c:1130:3: error: 'phydev' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> This adds an initialization for the 'phydev' variable when it is unused
> and changes the check to test for that NULL pointer to make it clear
> that we always pass a valid pointer here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Also applied, thanks.
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