linux-kernel - Re: [patch] vsprintf: use new vsprintf symbolic function pointer format

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Message-ID: <20080822163212.GE1563@phobos.i.cabal.ca>
Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:32:12 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>,
	linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] vsprintf: use new vsprintf symbolic function pointer
	format

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 09:34:43AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Use the '%pF' format to get rid of an "#ifdef DEBUG" and make
> some printks atomic.
> 
> This removes the last in-tree uses of print_fn_descriptor_symbol().
> I marked print_fn_descriptor_symbol() deprecated and scheduled it
> for removal next year to give time for out-of-tree modules to be
> updated.
> 
> I cc'd the parisc folks because print_fn_descriptor_symbol() is
> currently broken there (it needs to dereference the function pointer
> similar to ia64 and power).  This patch shouldn't make anything worse,
> but it means we need to fix dereference_function_descriptor() instead
> of print_fn_descriptor_symbol() to get meaningful initcall_debug
> output.
> 

Yeah, I sent a few patches a couple months ago fixing this up for
print_fn_..._symbol, but they were never applied, and I kind of forgot
about them. It only really effects me once and a while during a merge
window when I need to use initcall_debug, so it's easily forgotten.

I've got a patch, I'll send it along in a bit when one of my machines
finally boots and I can test it.

regards, Kyle
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