linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] drivers: base: remove need for a temporary string for the node name

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Date:   Thu, 6 Dec 2018 15:57:48 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] drivers: base: remove need for a temporary string
 for the node name

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 06:08:44PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Currently the node name is being formatting into a temporary string
> node_name, however, kobject_init_and_add allows one to format up
> a node name, so use that instead. This removes the need for the
> node_name string and also cleans up the following warning:
> 
> Fixes clang warning:
> warning: format string is not a string literal (potentially
> insecure) [-Wformat-security]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/swnode.c | 5 +----

I don't know where this file comes from.  It's not in my
driver-core-next branch, who is creating it?

thanks,

greg k-h