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Date:   Wed, 2 Dec 2020 14:34:40 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
Cc:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: fix -Wformat

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:04 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 14:00 -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>
> > Yeah, we could go through and remove %h and %hh to solve this, too, right?
>
> Yup.
>
> I think one of the checkpatch improvement mentees is adding
> some suggestion and I hope an automated fix mechanism for that.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5e3265c241602bb54286fbaae9222070daa4768e.camel@perches.com/

+ Tom, who's been looking at leveraging clang-tidy to automate such
treewide mechanical changes.
ex. https://reviews.llvm.org/D91789

See also commit cbacb5ab0aa0 ("docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging
use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]") for a concise summary of
related context.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers