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

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Message-ID: <20180116163301.lh76kvjheyobjgkp@pathway.suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:33:01 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
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        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] replace print_symbol() with printk()-s

On Mon 2018-01-08 11:09:42, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (01/05/18 15:42), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> JFI, the patch is in Linus's tree as of now (d0729bc6bee797fb).

Great. I have pushed the patch that removes printk_symbol()
into printk.git, branch for-4.16-print-symbol.

Note that I have updated the commit message similar way
like I did for the other commits. Especially I wanted
to mention what it was obsoleted by. The message is:

  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function

  No more print_symbol()/__print_symbol() users left, remove these
  symbols.

  It was a very old API that encouraged people use continuous lines.
  It had been obsoleted by %pS format specifier in a normal printk()
  call.


See also
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk.git/commit/?h=for-4.16-print-symbol&id=d2279c9d7f7db7f97567368bfc4539b3411adf8d

Best Regards,
Petr