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>
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Floris Kraak 2009-06-15 08:54:02 +03:00 committed by Sam Ravnborg
parent 7a6b1f1c0c
commit a8735821d1

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@ -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)