Re: wl18xx: Bad format for rx_frames_per_rates in debugfs?

[Eliad Peller]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Nicolas Iooss
<nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While adding __printf attributes to several functions in the kernel, I
> got a surprising gcc warning in drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/debugfs.c
> about "format '%u' expects argument of type 'unsigned int', but argument
> 5 has type 'u32 *'".
>
> Indeed it seems that commit c5d94169e818 ("wl18xx: use new fw stats
> structures") [1] introduced an array field "u32 rx_frames_per_rates[50]"
> in struct wl18xx_acx_rx_rate_stat but is using
> WL18XX_DEBUGFS_FWSTATS_FILE(rx_rate, rx_frames_per_rates, "%u"); instead
> of something like WL18XX_DEBUGFS_FWSTATS_FILE_ARRAY(rx_rate,
> rx_frames_per_rates, 50); for displaying this value.  So I believe that
> currently the rx_rate entry in debugfs contains a kernel pointer instead
> of the actual data.  As I don't have the hardware to test I can't be
> sure of it.
>
> Is this a real bug which needs to be fixed or something weird I haven't
> understood yet?
>
yes, seems like a bug.

Eliad.
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