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authorFloris Kraak <randakar@gmail.com>2009-06-15 08:54:02 +0300
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>2009-06-27 00:15:27 +0200
commita8735821d198675dd326cc5847e79df79c735119 (patch)
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Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag
Some distributions have enabled the gcc flag -Wformat-security by default. This results in a number of warnings about format arguments to functions, sometimes in cases where fixing the warning is not likely to actually fix a bug. Instead of hand patching a dozens of places (possibly more) that produce warnings that get ignored anyway we just turn off the flag in the Makefile. Signed-off-by: Floris Kraak <randakar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Makefile')
-rw-r--r--Makefile3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d1216fea0c92..8fb9bfce212c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -344,7 +344,8 @@ KBUILD_CPPFLAGS := -D__KERNEL__
KBUILD_CFLAGS := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \
- -Werror-implicit-function-declaration
+ -Werror-implicit-function-declaration \
+ -Wno-format-security
KBUILD_AFLAGS := -D__ASSEMBLY__
# Read KERNELRELEASE from include/config/kernel.release (if it exists)