linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] staging/sep: Fix sparse printk format warning

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Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:18:14 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
CC:	Peter Hüwe <PeterHuewe@....de>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mark Allyn <mark.a.allyn@...el.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] staging/sep: Fix sparse printk format warning

On 11/29/2010 11:01 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:59:11 +0100 Peter Hüwe wrote:
> 
>>> Are you sure?  I'm used to these being gcc warnings, not sparse.
>> You're right - these are generated by gcc ;) sorry for the confusion.
>>
>>> Also, this fixes the warnings on x86_64 but not on x86_32/i386:
>> You're right again, I'm on x86_64 - so what should I use instead?
> 
> I dunno, I've tried to fix this myself and the only thing that I have
> been successful with is casting those ioctl values to (unsigned long)
> and using %lx to print them.

What about to remove that completely :)? I don't see what that could be
good for -- everybody from userspace can print it...

regards,
-- 
js
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