Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core patches for 5.1-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Mar 06 2019 - 19:19:35 EST


On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 4:09 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is very funky, but that commit generates a new warning in a
> > totally unrelated area:
>
> Very very funky.
>
> Are you sure it's the __cold marking of an
> entirely unrelated function that isn't
> even used in the code with the new warning?

Yup, I bisected it, because it made no sense at all. There were no
changes to the driver itself in that pull request, but there was a new
warning.

> btw; what compiler version?

gcc version 8.2.1 20181215 (Red Hat 8.2.1-6) (GCC)

FWIW,

Linus