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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6 sit: work around bogus gcc-8 -Wrestrict warning
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:40:25 -0800
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On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 16:55 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

... 
> 
> This code is old, so Cc stable to make sure that we don't get the warning
> for older kernels built with new gcc.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org


This part makes little sense to me for two reasons.

1) David Miller handles stable submission himself
 ( Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt )

2) We are not supposed to make sure old kernels will compile with
future compilers.

That would need a lot of work and potential new bugs, not worth the
time.

Otherwise your patch looks fine really ;)