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

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Date:   Fri, 8 Sep 2017 22:39:04 +0200
From:   Helge Deller <deller@....de>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
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 08.09.2017 08:23, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> 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?

I grepped only for %pF and %pS.
There might be wrong %ps/%pf usages too.

Helge