linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/22] sparc: %pF is only for function pointers

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Message-ID: <1426186182.30327.127.camel@freescale.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:49:42 -0500
From:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	<trivial@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<sparclinux@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/22] sparc: %pF is only for function pointers

On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 19:47 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:13:47PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > Use %pS for actual addresses, otherwise you'll get bad output
> > on arches like ppc64 where %pF expects a function descriptor.  Even on
> > other architectures, refrain from setting a bad example that people
> > copy.
> 
> The commit message used uppercase 'S' and 'F'.
> But the patch uses lowercase variants.
> 
> Is this to highlight the letter in the commit message or some unwanted inconsistency?

It was copy and paste from others in the series that did involve the
capital version.  I can send a v2 with an updated commit message.

-Scott


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