[parisc-linux] Some warning: ... cleanup; realy no interest?

Joel Soete soete.joel at scarlet.be
Sat Sep 8 03:43:26 MDT 2007



Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:50:25PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
>>> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 03:51:22PM +0000, Joel Soete wrote:
>>>>> mmm and what do you think about adding yet another format letter e.g. [rR] for resource_size_t as it was done for [zZ]?
>>>> You'd also have to teach gcc about it.
>>>>
>>> What should I teach to gcc?
>> Don't try, it's a waste of effort.  Just do the cast to unsigned long long
>> as previously suggested.
>>
> 
> I'd rather do neither. Talking to Viro we've been thinking about
> removing the format check attributes from the kernel and using sparse
> instead, which is under a bit tighter control.
> 
> --Kyle
> 
> 
Tx for feedback,
	j.




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