linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix calls to request

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Date:	Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:14:06 +0900
From:	"Nguyen Anh Quynh" <aquynh@...il.com>
To:	"Al Viro" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kuniyasu Suzaki" <k.suzaki@...t.go.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix calls to request_module()

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:35:21PM +0900, Nguyen Anh Quynh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The request_module() function should always have the 1st param as a
>> format argument. So for example, request_module("i2c-powermac") should
>> be called as request_module("%s", "i2c-powermac"). Otherwise, new gcc
>> like gcc 4.3.2 on Ubuntu 8.10 would spit out a lot of warnings. This
>> patch fixes them all in linus-git tree.
>
> ... and it doesn't address the underlying problems at all.  A string literal
> without a single % in it is a perfectly sane and valid format.  _Why_ are
> we getting these warning?

Hmm, I checked again, and the warnings actually lie elsewhere. I got
mistake while work with several versions at the same time. So please
ignore this patch.

Thanks,
Quynh
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