Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag
Some distributions have enabled the gcc flag -Wformat-security by default. This results in a number of warnings about format arguments to functions, sometimes in cases where fixing the warning is not likely to actually fix a bug. Instead of hand patching a dozens of places (possibly more) that produce warnings that get ignored anyway we just turn off the flag in the Makefile. Signed-off-by: Floris Kraak <randakar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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