linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate %pF/%pf printk specifiers

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Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:05:42 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@...six.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        "Yu, Fenghua" <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-ia64@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate
 %pF/%pf printk specifiers

On (09/22/17 16:48), Luck, Tony wrote:
[..]
> Tested patch series on ia64 successfully.
> 
> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

thanks!

> After this goes upstream, you should submit a patch to get rid of
> all uses of %pF (70 instances in 35 files) and %pf (63 in 34)
> 
> Perhaps break the patch by top-level directory (e.g. get all the %pF
> and %pF in the 17 files under drivers/ in one patch).

frankly, I was going to have some sort of a lazy deprecation process:
didn't plan to send out a patch set that would hunt down all pf/pF-s.
hm...


speaking of upstream, any objections if this patch set will go through
the printk tree, in one piece?

I'll wait for several more days and then resend v3 with updated
Documentation and tweaked checkpatch warning message.

	-ss