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Date:   Tue, 12 Jan 2021 12:09:21 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: imx-hdmi: Fix warning of the uninitialized
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 06:48:48PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> This is a random warning fix, why would you expect it to be sent as a
> bug fix?  This is the first indication I've seen that anyone is seeing
> it in mainline, in general the people who report and fix warnings are
> doing so based on -next and the patch seems to be from a month ago.  I
> don't have this in my inbox so I assume it's applied already or needs to
> be resubmitted anyway.

Well, I consider compiler warnings bugs. I have had plenty of my
compiler warning patches sent as bug fixes for an -rc. Furthermore, this
patch was sent three times by different people, that should give you some
indication that people are tripping over it.

https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/X9NGQaF4pmK8oUAF@mwanda/
https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/1608115464-18710-1-git-send-email-shengjiu.wang@nxp.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/20201230154443.656997-1-arnd@kernel.org/

The first version was sent on December 11th, it looks like your pull for
5.11 went on the December 14th, then the second version was applied on
December 16th so I figured it might be destined for 5.11 but I could not
tell (your for-next branch is a merge of your for-5.11 and for-5.12):

https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/160813397775.31838.8934909997692637790.b4-ty@kernel.org/

Cheers,
Nathan