Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:44218 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754895Ab2BLSDM (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:03:12 -0500 Received: by iacb35 with SMTP id b35so3025845iac.19 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:03:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F37FEDC.60607@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20120212_190316_073587_B89CE8D7) Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:03:08 -0600 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wireless CC: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: From: Build regressions/improvements in v3.3-rc3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Fellow wireless developers: In http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1202.1/01964.html, Geert Uytterhoeven lists the following warnings as occurring in mainline V3.3-rc3. The list is considerably smaller than were found for V3.2. In addition, there are no longer any build errors for wireless. I'm pretty sure the remaining warnings are not present in the current wireless-testing code using "gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.6.2", but I'm posting them so that you know some compiler/architecture combination reports a problem. The warnings are as follows: + src/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c: warning: return from incompatible pointer type: => 84, 85:1 + src/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c: warning: 'hw' may be used uninitialized in this function: => 1377:26 + src/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/aiutils.c: warning: 'in' is used uninitialized in this function: => 915 + src/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/aiutils.c: warning: 'in' may be used uninitialized in this function: => 915 + src/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/aiutils.c: warning: 'val' is used uninitialized in this function: => 765, 1159 + src/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/aiutils.c: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function: => 765, 1159 + src/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/aiutils.c: warning: 'w' is used uninitialized in this function: => 1185 + src/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type: => 5682, 5582 + src/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/nicpci.c: warning: 'byte_val' is used uninitialized in this function: => 280 + src/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/nicpci.c: warning: 'reg_val' is used uninitialized in this function: => 487 + src/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_wx.c: warning: unused variable 'dev': => 526 + src/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c: warning: 'version' defined but not used: => 1759, 1759:13 Larry