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

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Message-ID: <20090626221545.GE26451@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:15:45 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Floris Kraak <randakar@...il.com>,
	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 Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:54:02AM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> From: Floris Kraak <randakar@...il.com>
> 
> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Floris Kraak <randakar@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

Applied.

	Sam
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