Re: [PATCH 08/21] clk: clkdev: Ignore suggestion to use gnu_printf() as it's not appropriate here

From: Lee Jones
Date: Wed Mar 10 2021 - 04:00:37 EST


On Fri, 12 Feb 2021, Lee Jones wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>
> > Quoting Lee Jones (2021-01-26 04:45:27)
> > > Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s):
> > >
> > > drivers/clk/clkdev.c: In function ‘vclkdev_alloc’:
> > > drivers/clk/clkdev.c:173:3: warning: function ‘vclkdev_alloc’ might be a candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Wsuggest-attribute=format]
> > >
> > > Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/clk/clkdev.c | 7 +++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/clk/clkdev.c b/drivers/clk/clkdev.c
> > > index 0f2e3fcf0f19f..5e5f25d568724 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/clk/clkdev.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/clk/clkdev.c
> > > @@ -153,6 +153,11 @@ struct clk_lookup_alloc {
> > > char con_id[MAX_CON_ID];
> > > };
> > >
> > > +#pragma GCC diagnostic push
> > > +#ifndef __clang__
> > > +#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wsuggest-attribute=format"
> > > +#endif
> >
> > Can this be some macro banished to compiler.h?
>
> This is probably a question for Arnd.

UPDATE: Arnd and I are working on a solution for this.

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