linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lpfc: use %zd format string for size

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Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:59:08 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     James Smart <james.smart@...gotech.com>,
        Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@...gotech.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        James Bottomley <JBottomley@...n.com>,
        Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@....de>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lpfc: use %zd format string for size_t

>>>>> "Arnd" == Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> writes:

Arnd> A recent bugfix introduced a harmless warning in the lpfc driver:
Arnd> drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c: In function 'lpfc_write_firmware':
Arnd> drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_logmsg.h:56:45: error: format '%ld' expects
Arnd> argument of type 'long int', but argument 9 has type 'size_t {aka
Arnd> const unsigned int}' [-Werror=format=]

Arnd> 'size_t' is always the same width as 'long' in the kernel, but the
Arnd> compiler doesn't know that. The %z modifier is what the standard
Arnd> expects to be used here, and this shuts up the warning.

Applied to 4.10/scsi-queue.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering