linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] HID: intel_ish-hid: fix format string for size

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 10:35:46 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] HID: intel_ish-hid: fix format string for size_t

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 1:46 AM, Srinivas Pandruvada
<srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 22:21 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> When building for 32-bit architectures, we get a harmless warning:
>>
>> intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid-client.c: In function 'process_recv':
>> intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid-client.c:139:7: error: format '%lu' expects
>> argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type
>> 'unsigned int' [-Werror=format=]
>>
>> This changes the format string to print size_t variables using %zu
>> instead.
> Is the ordering of patch correct?
> ISH config depends on X86_64, so it would not be enabled for 32 bit
> build.
> So your patch 5/5 will adding "|| COMPILE_TEST", hence it is building.

Right, that is intentional. Adding ||COMPILE_TEST first would be a
regression by introducing  the warning on 32-bit allmodconfig builds.

       Arnd