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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ipv6 sit: work around bogus gcc-8 -Wrestrict warning
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On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 16:55 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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>
> 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 ;)

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