linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] tools/testing: Fix the wrong format specifier

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Message-ID: <0987e828-f7c3-4d11-ab1b-a671d091fbea@web.de>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:30:20 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Zhu Jun <zhujun2@...s.chinamobile.com>, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
 Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@...il.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andy Lutomirski
 <luto@...capital.net>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
 Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] tools/testing: Fix the wrong format specifier

> The format specifier in fprintf is "%u", that "%u" should use
> unsigned int type instead.

* Please improve the change description with imperative wordings.
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.10#n94

* Would you like to add any tags (like “Fixes” and “Cc”) accordingly?
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.10#n145

* How good does the summary phrase fit to your proposal?

>                           the problem is discovered by reading code.

How do you think about to detect such change possibilities by more systematic
source code analyses?

Regards,
Markus