Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:15:45 +0200
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Floris Kraak <randakar@gmail.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Trivial Patch Monkey <trivial@kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:54:02AM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> From: Floris Kraak <randakar@gmail.com>
> 
> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Floris Kraak <randakar@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Applied.

	Sam
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