linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ubifs: Fix the printing type of c->big

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Date:   Sat, 31 Oct 2020 21:44:12 +0100
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:     Chengsong Ke <kechengsong@...wei.com>
Cc:     Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        wangfangpeng1@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ubifs: Fix the printing type of c->big_lpt

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 9:56 AM Chengsong Ke <kechengsong@...wei.com> wrote:
>
> Ubifs uses %d to print c->big_lpt, but c->big_lpt is a variable
> of type unsigned int and should be printed with %u.

Well, it is:
unsigned int big_lpt:1;
So, either 0 or 1.

Does changing it to %u silence some static checker or is there some
other problem I don't
see right now? :-)

Thanks,
//richard