linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/14] Fix wrong %pF and %pS printk format specifier usages

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Date:   Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:47:28 +0200
From:   Helge Deller <deller@....de>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] Fix wrong %pF and %pS printk format specifier
 usages

On 14.09.2017 11:27, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (09/14/17 10:39), Helge Deller wrote:
> [..]
>> The basic concept of your proposal may work, and since it will avoid such
>> coding issues in the future I think it's probably the best solution.
>>
>> Will you come up with a patch ? (I won't have time the next few days).
>> If yes,I'd be happy to test it on parisc.
> 
> cool.
> 
> I think I can try to come up with something. I don't have any access
> to affected H/W, so if I won't be able to bring up qemu images 
There is no qemu for parisc yet, but cross-compiling the kernel on Fedora or
Debian from x86_64 is easy and ready-to-go.
Otherwise it's not a problem, I can try in a few days.

> I'll be happy to just hand it over to platform maintainers: arch-s like
> parisc64 are way to exotic ;)  my aim is a removal of %pf/%pF here.
> 
> let's hear from ia64 and ppc64 guys.

Ok too.

Helge