Re: [PATCH] sysfs: fix compile warning in i386

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Apr 03 2013 - 14:07:05 EST


On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 12:22:06PM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote:
> This patch fixes compile warning in i386:
>
> drivers/base/cpu.c: In function 'show_crash_notes_size':
> drivers/base/cpu.c:142:2: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'unsigned int' [-Wformat]
>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/cpu.c | 4 +++-
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
> index a55b590..ee38cc2 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
> @@ -138,8 +138,10 @@ static ssize_t show_crash_notes_size(struct device *dev,
> char *buf)
> {
> ssize_t rc;
> + unsigned long size;
>
> - rc = sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", sizeof(note_buf_t));
> + size = sizeof(note_buf_t);
> + rc = sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", size);

No, use %z, like Arnd did in his patch, that makes it correct for all
arches. I'll take his patch instead.

thanks,

greg k-h
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