Binary printing functions are using printf() type of format, and compiler is not happy about them as is:
lib/seq_buf.c:162:17: error: function ‘seq_buf_bprintf’ might be a candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Werror=suggest-attribute=format] Fix the compilation errors by adding __printf() attribute. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com> --- include/linux/seq_buf.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/seq_buf.h b/include/linux/seq_buf.h index fe41da005970..52791e070506 100644 --- a/include/linux/seq_buf.h +++ b/include/linux/seq_buf.h @@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ extern int seq_buf_hex_dump(struct seq_buf *s, const char *prefix_str, const void *buf, size_t len, bool ascii); #ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF -extern int -seq_buf_bprintf(struct seq_buf *s, const char *fmt, const u32 *binary); +__printf(2, 0) +int seq_buf_bprintf(struct seq_buf *s, const char *fmt, const u32 *binary); #endif void seq_buf_do_printk(struct seq_buf *s, const char *lvl); -- 2.47.2