linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mediatek: mt7601u: fix clang -Wformat warning

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Date:   Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:16:11 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
To:     Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Cc:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mediatek: mt7601u: fix clang -Wformat warning

On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 14:29:32 -0700 Justin Stitt wrote:
> When building with Clang we encounter this warning:
> | drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/debugfs.c:92:6: error: format
> | specifies type 'unsigned char' but the argument has type 'int'
> | [-Werror,-Wformat] dev->ee->reg.start + dev->ee->reg.num - 1);
> 
> The format specifier used is `%hhu` which describes a u8. Both
> `dev->ee->reg.start` and `.num` are u8 as well. However, the expression
> as a whole is promoted to an int as you cannot get smaller-than-int from
> addition. Therefore, to fix the warning, use the promoted-to-type's
> format specifier -- in this case `%d`.

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>