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

From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>, arnd@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/21] clk: clkdev: Ignore suggestion to use gnu_printf() as it's not appropriate here
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:59:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210310085937.GF4931@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210212093620.GG4572@dell>

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@armlinux.org.uk>
> > > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > >  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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