On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>Changes since the prerelease:
>...
>Matti Aarnio:
> - teach tulip driver about media types 5 and 6
This part of the patch introduces a bug in 2.4.0, as noticed by gcc:
media.c: In function `tulip_select_media':
media.c:268: warning: unused variable `csr15val'
media.c:268: warning: unused variable `csr15dir'
media.c:268: warning: unused variable `csr14val'
media.c:268: warning: unused variable `csr13val'
media.c:151: warning: `new_csr6' might be used uninitialized in this function
The last warning indicates a real problem. The patch adds a new
control flow path in which new_csr6 is _not_ assigned a value,
which causes the procedure's second last statement
tp->csr6 = new_csr6 | (tp->csr6 & 0xfdff) | (tp->full_duplex ? 0x0200 : 0);
to 'or' random bits into tp->csr6.
The patch also adds four unused variables, which looks rather fishy.
/Mikael
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