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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nl80211.c: Fixed the wdev_id being used
 uninitialized.
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:42:22 +0200
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On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 08:33 -0400, Shakil A Khan wrote:
> On Monday 01 September 2014 08:07:38 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > +	u64 wdev_id = 0;
> > 
> > it's not used uninitialized, NACK.
> > 
> > johannes
> > 
> 
> wdev_id can be used uninitialized if  have_wdev_id turns to be false,
> which may happen if the entry for NL80211_ATTR_WDEV is removed in
> future. Who knows.

In which case the compiler will warn about it. If you were to use a
newer compiler now, you wouldn't see the warning.

johannes