> compiling the kernel with -Wno-format is annoying for development and > hides real bugs. It seems gcc has attribute format kprintf since a few > years already. What is missing until we can remove -Wno-format? Any > pointers to prior discussions about this?
It is missing the actual format fixes in the tree. I have done a large bunch of them but am sleeping on these changes. > - define a few macros for special types, e.g. bus_addr_t and time_t > and use them It was decided to cast bus_*_t to long long and print them with %lld, rather than introduce kernel-only PRIfoo macros. > Is there anything else? Do all used gcc versions support 'z' for > size_t? Yes. > Maybe a useful first step would be to remove -Wno-format and use -Wno- > error=format instead? No, this syntax is not understood by gcc < 4.
