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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:24:28 -0700 From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> To: Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>, 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> Cc: 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> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 19:53 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > On 20.09.2017 19:38, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 01:29 +0900, 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' > > > > If this series is accepted, I think this message > > is unclear and would prefer something like: > > Is it worth to mention, that it's still needed in older kernels? > Just in case some patch get's backported. I think probably not. There are relatively few references and modifications are unlikely to be backported.
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