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

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Message-ID: <20170908062317.GB496@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain>
Date:   Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:23:17 +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.

Helge,

did you also grep for %pf? or just for %pF?

	-ss