Hello Tom,
right, a bit outdated knowledge, but at least more then two years ago, working around this warning would always lead to code increase and I can't think of a reason why the code can actually fail.
Suppressing the warning seems fine with me.
Regards, Jeroen
On 05/10/2017 09:26 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
We will see warnings such as: net/eth_common.c:57:61: warning: data argument not used by format string [-Wformat-extra-args] sprintf(enetvar, index ? "%s%daddr" : "%saddr", base_name, index); ~~~~~~~~ ^ With clang. In this case we do not want to re-write our code to be less compact as the above is intentional and readable. Add a comment above the disabling so that it's clear why we want that warning off.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com
net/Makefile | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/Makefile b/net/Makefile index f03d6083268f..ae54eee5afe0 100644 --- a/net/Makefile +++ b/net/Makefile @@ -25,3 +25,8 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_PING) += ping.o obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_RARP) += rarp.o obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_SNTP) += sntp.o obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_NET) += tftp.o
+# Disable this warning as it is triggered by: +# sprintf(buf, index ? "foo%d" : "foo", index) +# and this is intentional usage. +CFLAGS_eth_common.o += -Wno-format-extra-args