Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Enable the gcc flag -Wformat-security (was: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag)

[Floris Kraak <randakar@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:57:28AM +0100, Floris Kraak wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Floris Kraak <randakar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Resend, seems like the earlier patch doesn't quite actually work as
>> advertised; -Wformat-security needs -Wformat enabled as well.
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>> [PATCH] Kbuild: Enable the gcc flag -Wformat-security
>
> We need to sort out the ~150 warnings you see in your
> allyesconfig build before applying this one.
> We try to avoid applying patches that increases the warning count
> without some effort done to fix it first.
>
> So let see what the other patch end up with.
>

Fine with me, the other patch needs to cook a bit first tho ;-)

Regards,
Floris
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