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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: New sparse warning in net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:12:56 -0800 (PST)
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:56:43 +0100

> 
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 11:52 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> > Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:53:48 +0100
> > 
> > > Maybe we should just add a new printf modifier like %M for MAC
> > > addresses? Then we could use sprintf, snprintf, printk and whatever we
> > > please without any of the macro stuff...
> > 
> > But GCC has no idea what the heck it is and will warn.
> 
> No, I actually wondered about that too and finally just tried, it simply
> ignores it when doing the printf warnings.

Ok, so it simply can't validate the thing.