Commit a8735821 authored Jun 15, 2009 by Floris Kraak Committed by Sam Ravnborg Jun 27, 2009

Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag

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>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

parent 7a6b1f1c

Makefile

+2 −1

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		@@ -344,7 +344,8 @@ KBUILD_CPPFLAGS := -D__KERNEL__

		KBUILD_CFLAGS := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
		-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \
		-Werror-implicit-function-declaration
		-Werror-implicit-function-declaration \
		-Wno-format-security
		KBUILD_AFLAGS := -D__ASSEMBLY__

		# Read KERNELRELEASE from include/config/kernel.release (if it exists)

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