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

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Message-ID: <e3b59b09c958e420b74aab9f51d6eca0c63005ca.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 Jul 2022 18:40:36 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>, 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 Fri, 2022-07-15 at 17:08 -0700, Justin Stitt wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:33 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2022-07-11 at 14:29 -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);
[]
> > I suggest s/%hh/%/ for all the uses here, not just this one.
> 
> I also contemplated this change but I think it might be a bit out of
> scope for https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/378  -- What
> do you think?

It would not be out of scope.

> It could be argued that every single instance of %hh[dux] should be
> replaced with %[dux].

All the vsprintf ones, but not the scanf ones.