On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 8:22 PM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Clang warns:
>
> In file included from drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c:4:
> In file included from drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf.h:37:
> In file included from drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_type.h:8:
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_osdep.h:49:18: warning: 'format'
> attribute argument not supported: gnu_printf [-Wignored-attributes]
> __attribute__ ((format(gnu_printf, 3, 4)));
> ^
> 1 warning generated.
>
> We can convert from gnu_printf to printf without any side effects for
> two reasons:
>
> 1. All iavf_debug instances use standard printf formats, as pointed out
> by Miguel Ojeda at the below link, meaning gnu_printf is not strictly
> required.
>
> 2. However, GCC has aliased printf to gnu_printf on Linux since at least
> 2010 based on git history.
Thanks for this fix!
FWIW, using godbolt to see which version something was added in is
better than giving a year of the commit. I don't think it matters for
this case, as the kernel already makes use of `printf` as you do in
this change, but food for thought for next time.
>
> From gcc/c-family/c-format.c:
>
> /* Attributes such as "printf" are equivalent to those such as
> "gnu_printf" unless this is overridden by a target. */
> static const target_ovr_attr gnu_target_overrides_format_attributes[] =
> {
> { "gnu_printf", "printf" },
> { "gnu_scanf", "scanf" },
> { "gnu_strftime", "strftime" },
> { "gnu_strfmon", "strfmon" },
> { NULL, NULL }
> };
>
> The mentioned override only happens on Windows (mingw32). Changing from
> gnu_printf to printf is a no-op for GCC and stops Clang from warning.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/111
> Suggested-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sando...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_osdep.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_osdep.h
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_osdep.h
> index e6e0b0328706..c90cafb526d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_osdep.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_osdep.h
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ struct iavf_virt_mem {
>
> #define iavf_debug(h, m, s, ...) iavf_debug_d(h, m, s, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> extern void iavf_debug_d(void *hw, u32 mask, char *fmt_str, ...)
> - __attribute__ ((format(gnu_printf, 3, 4)));
> + __printf(3, 4);
And you make use of the __attribute__ wrapper from
include/linux/compiler_attributes.h, cool.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com>
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
