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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 03:17:21 +0000
Subject: Re: Lots of new warnings with gcc-7.1.1
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To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
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> The hwmon warnings are all about supporting no more than 9,999 sensors
> (applesmc) to 999,999,999 sensors (scpi) of a given type.

Yeah, I think that's enough.

> Easy "fix" would be to replace snprintf() with scnprintf(), presumably
> because gcc doesn't know about scnprintf().

If that's the case, I'd prefer just turning off the format-truncation
(but not overflow) warning with '-Wno-format-trunction".

But maybe we can at least start it on a subsystem-by-subsystem basis
after people have verified their own subsusystem?

                  Linus