linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag

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Message-ID: <20090614205002.GE3187@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:50:02 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Floris Kraak <randakar@...il.com>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Trivial Patch Monkey <trivial@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:28:18PM +0200, Floris Kraak wrote:
> On 5/15/09, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Floris Kraak <randakar@...il.com> wrote:
> > > Some distributions have enabled the gcc flag -Wformat-security by default.*
> > > This results in a number of warnings about format arguments to
> > > functions, sometimes in cases where fixing the warning is not likely
> > > to actually fix a bug.
> > > Instead of hand patching a dozens of places (possibly more) that
> > > produce warnings that get ignored anyway we just turn off the flag in
> > > the Makefile.
> > >
> >
> > Is there a reason this patch was not merged? Yes, it's clearly a
> > distro problem but apparently there's no easy way to turn it off.
> >

I have lost the original patch to disable this check.
Could you please resend.

Thanks,
	Sam
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