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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Floris Kraak <randakar@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	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
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:50:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090614205002.GE3187@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56e1b5710905150628w912759an21c82efc3fae7f4a@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:28:18PM +0200, Floris Kraak wrote:
> On 5/15/09, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Floris Kraak <randakar@gmail.com> 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-14 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-04 14:28 Floris Kraak
2009-02-04 22:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-02-04 22:26   ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-04 23:48     ` Robert Hancock
2009-02-05  6:37       ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-05  8:26         ` Floris Kraak
2009-02-05 10:15           ` Floris Kraak
2009-02-05 10:27             ` Andreas Schwab
2009-02-05 10:50               ` Floris Kraak
2009-02-05 21:52               ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-10 21:11           ` Kyle Moffett
2009-02-10 21:56             ` Floris Kraak
2009-02-10 20:24     ` Pavel Machek
2009-02-10 21:48       ` Floris Kraak
2009-05-15 10:23 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-15 13:28   ` Floris Kraak
2009-05-15 20:42     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-15 22:09       ` Floris Kraak
2009-06-14 20:50     ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2009-06-15  5:54       ` Pekka J Enberg
2009-06-15  8:02         ` Floris Kraak
2009-06-26 22:15         ` Sam Ravnborg

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