Re: [PATCH][next] drivers: base: remove need for a temporary string for the node name

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Dec 06 2018 - 09:57:56 EST


On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 06:08:44PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently the node name is being formatting into a temporary string
> node_name, however, kobject_init_and_add allows one to format up
> a node name, so use that instead. This removes the need for the
> node_name string and also cleans up the following warning:
>
> Fixes clang warning:
> warning: format string is not a string literal (potentially
> insecure) [-Wformat-security]
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/swnode.c | 5 +----

I don't know where this file comes from. It's not in my
driver-core-next branch, who is creating it?

thanks,

greg k-h