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

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Date:   Thu, 7 Sep 2017 09:45:22 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] Fix wrong %pF and %pS printk format specifier
 usages

On (09/06/17 22:27), Helge Deller wrote:
> This patch series fixes the wrong usages of the %pF and %pS printk format
> specifiers throughout the kernel code.
> 
> Both specifiers have the same result on most architectures. But on ia64, ppc64
> and parisc64 architectures the %pF specifier does an extra conversion because
> there function pointers are actually function descriptors.

hm...

can we fix it in lib/vsprintf.c instead?

a) the patch set has "there is no problem on platform A, but still
   let's just change it"

   which is probably fine. but

b) you tweak/fix the currently existing users, OK. but there, most
   likely, will be new users that will require fixes in the future.

	-ss