From: Pravin Shelar <pshe...@ovn.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 16:25:54 -0800
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote:
>> On Monday, November 7, 2016 2:16:30 PM CET Pravin Shelar wrote:
>>> On Monday, November 7, 2016, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> > A bugfix introduced a harmless warning in v4.9-rc4:
>>> >
>>> > drivers/net/vxlan.c: In function 'vxlan_group_used':
>>> > drivers/net/vxlan.c:947:21: error: unused variable 'sock6'
>>> > [-Werror=unused-variable]
>>> >
>>> > This hides the variable inside of the same #ifdef that is
>>> > around its user. The extraneous initialization is removed
>>> > at the same time, it was accidentally introduced in the
>>> > same commit.
>>> >
>>> > Fixes: c6fcc4fc5f8b ("vxlan: avoid using stale vxlan socket.")
>>> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de <javascript:;>>
>>> > ---
>>>
>>>
>>> I have already submitted patch to fix this issue.
>>>
>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/691588/
>>
>> You have tagged those seven patches for net-next which seems
>> appropriate, but as I wrote above the commit that introduced
>> it was merged between -rc3 and -rc4, so I think we still need a
>> fix for v4.9, right?
>>
>
> This is not actual bug, So I am not sure if we need the fix for net branch.
Really ugly warnings like this really need to be fixed in 'net'.
