Revert "Makefile.extrawarn: re-enable -Wformat for clang"

This reverts commit 258fafcd0683d9ccfa524129d489948ab3ddc24c.

The clang -Wformat warning is terminally broken, and the clang people
can't seem to get their act together.

This test program causes a warning with clang:

	#include <stdio.h>

	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		printf("%hhu\n", 'a');
	}

resulting in

  t.c:5:19: warning: format specifies type 'unsigned char' but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat]
          printf("%hhu\n", 'a');
                  ~~~~     ^~~
                  %d

and apparently clang people consider that a feature, because they don't
want to face the reality of how either C character constants, C
arithmetic, and C varargs functions work.

The rest of the world just shakes their head at that kind of
incompetence, and turns off -Wformat for clang again.

And no, the "you should use a pointless cast to shut this up" is not a
valid answer.  That warning should not exist in the first place, or at
least be optinal with some "-Wformat-me-harder" kind of option.

[ Admittedly, there's also very little reason to *ever* use '%hh[ud]' in
  C, but what little reason there is is entirely about 'I want to see
  only the low 8 bits of the argument'. So I would suggest nobody ever
  use that format in the first place, but if they do, the clang
  behavious is simply always wrong. Because '%hhu' takes an 'int'. It's
  that simple. ]

Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee (Codethink) <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
index 9bbaf7112a9b..f5f0d6f09053 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ else
 
 ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-initializer-overrides
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format-zero-length
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, pointer-to-enum-cast)