[PATCH 10/14] scripts/Makefile.warn: Drop -Wformat handling for clang < 16

Nathan Chancellor
2026-04-29T03:00:35Z

Now that the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel
has been raised to 17.0.1, the block dealing with -Wformat with clang
prior to 16 can be removed since the condition for its inclusion is
always false.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
---
scripts/Makefile.warn | 10 ----------
1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.warn b/scripts/Makefile.warn
index e77ca875aea4..35af7d6c6d18 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.warn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.warn
@@ -135,16 +135,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wno-stringop-truncation)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-override-init # alias for -Wno-initializer-overrides in clang

ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
-# Clang before clang-16 would warn on default argument promotions.
-ifneq ($(call clang-min-version, 160000),y)
-# Disable -Wformat
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format
-# Then re-enable flags that were part of the -Wformat group that aren't
-# problematic.
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wformat-extra-args -Wformat-invalid-specifier
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wformat-zero-length -Wnonnull
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wformat-insufficient-args
-endif
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-to-enum-cast
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-tautological-constant-out-of-range-compare
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-unaligned-access

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