Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag

[Floris Kraak]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Floris Kraak <randakar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Quite honestly I still believe just disabling this check is the best
>> thing to do.
>
> Agreed. The proposed "fixes" to silence the warning don't improve the
> code and apparently in some cases they even increase kernel text.
>

The exercise needed to be done to prove the point though ;-)

Regards,
Floris
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