netdev - RE: [PATCH] enetc: use correct format characters

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Date:   Thu, 17 Mar 2022 17:37:09 +0000
From:   Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>
To:     Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "llvm@...ts.linux.dev" <llvm@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] enetc: use correct format characters

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 11:31 PM
[...]
> Subject: [PATCH] enetc: use correct format characters
> 
> When compiling with -Wformat, clang emits the following warning:
> 
> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_mdio.c:151:22: warning:
> format specifies type 'unsigned char' but the argument has type 'int'
> [-Wformat]
>                         phy_id, dev_addr, regnum);
>                                           ^~~~~~
> ./include/linux/dev_printk.h:163:47: note: expanded from macro 'dev_dbg'
>                 dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG, dev, dev_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__); \
>                                                     ~~~     ^~~~~~~~~~~
> ./include/linux/dev_printk.h:129:34: note: expanded from macro
> 'dev_printk'
>                 _dev_printk(level, dev, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);            \
>                                         ~~~    ^~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> The types of these arguments are unconditionally defined, so this patch
> updates the format character to the correct ones for ints and unsigned ints.
> 
> Link: ClangBuiltLinux/linux#378
> Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>
Fixes: ebfcb23d62ab ("enetc: Add ENETC PF level external MDIO support")

Can be also net-next material. It's up to you. Thx.