linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/13] replace print

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Message-ID: <20180105145715.GA409@tigerII.localdomain>
Date:   Fri, 5 Jan 2018 23:57:15 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
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        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] replace print_symbol() with printk()-s

On (01/05/18 15:42), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> > oh, one more thing. one extra patch, which gets rid of
> > print_symbol()/__print_symbol().
> 
> I am all for it. But I would postpone this removal to 4.17.
> The reason is rather ugly. 13th patch is already in arc tree.
> We would need to shuffle the patch or coordinate pull requests.
> I think that it is not worth it. There is no real hurry.
> I doubt that the would be any new user in the meantime.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Petr
> 
> PS: I have just pushed 12 patches into printk.git for-4.16 branch.
> I will merge this to linux-next branch on Monday. I will not
> be around the computer over the weekend...

OK. thanks!

	-ss