Re: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix clang -Wformat warnings

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> wrote:

> When building with Clang we encounter these warnings:
> | drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/ftm-initiator.c:1108:47: error:
> | format specifies type 'unsigned char' but the argument has type 's16'
> | (aka 'short') [-Werror,-Wformat] IWL_DEBUG_INFO(mvm, "\tburst index:
> | %hhu\n", res->ftm.burst_index);
> -
> | drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/ftm-initiator.c:1111:47: error:
> | format specifies type 'unsigned char' but the argument has type 's32'
> | (aka 'int') [-Werror,-Wformat] IWL_DEBUG_INFO(mvm, "\trssi spread:
> | %hhu\n", res->ftm.rssi_spread);
> 
> The previous format specifier `%hhu` describes a u8 but our arguments
> are wider than this which means bits are potentially being lost.
> 
> Variadic functions (printf-like) undergo default argument promotion.
> Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst specifically recommends using
> the promoted-to-type's format flag.
> 
> As per C11 6.3.1.1:
> (https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1548.pdf) `If an int
> can represent all values of the original type ..., the value is
> converted to an int; otherwise, it is converted to an unsigned int.
> These are called the integer promotions.` Thus it makes sense to change
> `%hhu` to `%d` for both instances of the warning.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/378
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.

7819b3d1dab5 wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix clang -Wformat warnings

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