Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763195AbZFNUrv (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:47:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755708AbZFNUro (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:47:44 -0400 Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:37538 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753715AbZFNUrn (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:47:43 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:50:02 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Floris Kraak Cc: Pekka Enberg , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Trivial Patch Monkey , Andrew Morton , Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag Message-ID: <20090614205002.GE3187@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <56e1b5710902040628w5ceb36f5kdb1f433087355f80@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020905150323m76cdd775p87abec356e355d37@mail.gmail.com> <56e1b5710905150628w912759an21c82efc3fae7f4a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56e1b5710905150628w912759an21c82efc3fae7f4a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1116 Lines: 27 On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:28:18PM +0200, Floris Kraak wrote: > On 5/15/09, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Floris Kraak wrote: > > > Some distributions have enabled the gcc flag -Wformat-security by default.* > > > This results in a number of warnings about format arguments to > > > functions, sometimes in cases where fixing the warning is not likely > > > to actually fix a bug. > > > Instead of hand patching a dozens of places (possibly more) that > > > produce warnings that get ignored anyway we just turn off the flag in > > > the Makefile. > > > > > > > Is there a reason this patch was not merged? Yes, it's clearly a > > distro problem but apparently there's no easy way to turn it off. > > I have lost the original patch to disable this check. Could you please resend. Thanks, Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/