linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

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Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2017 01:33:24 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Cc:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        James Bottomley <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

On (09/21/17 01:29), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> We deprecated '%pF/%pf' printk specifiers, since '%pS/%ps' is now smart
> enough to handle function pointer dereference on platforms where such
> dereference is required.
> 
> checkpatch warning example:
> 
> WARNING: Use '%pS/%ps' instead. This pointer extension was deprecated: '%pF'

weird... somehow I sent this patch twice. please ignore this one.

	-ss