On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Sam Ravnborg<sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > - disabling of -Wformat-security > We looked at it and 'fixing' the warnings was not pleasant The alternative is roughly 136 'trivial' patches to shut them all up* and one to turn this flag on unconditionally to prevent hackers from adding more of them after that ;-) The alternative to *that* is improving on this silly flag: - Either finding some way to teach GCC how to not emit warnings about usage that is entirely sane. - Or finding some way to teach some other build tool to catch unsafe usage without polluting the build with false positives. Take your pick. *) While I can't give you 100% certainty about every warning I know for a fact the vast majority of the warnings at least consists of false positives so there'd be no other benefit from them except a quieter kernel build on certain distro's ;-) Regards, Floris --- 'Or lawyers may say, “But if I decline, someone else will do it. So what is gained?” My reply: “Let someone else do it. But not you. Honor is personal. Worry about yourself. You don’t get a pass from moral responsibility because you acted for a client.” That’s the first lesson I would offer, aimed at lawyers. A second lesson, aimed at all, is this: Keep ready your capacity for outrage. This is very important. Next to the vote, outrage is the one response each of us can contribute. Outrage is how honor must confront dishonor. If we lose the capacity for outrage, we are in serious trouble. ' --- Stephen Gillers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
