linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes

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Message-ID: <20181012113921.04b5a4d9@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:39:21 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Cc:     "Tobin C . Harding" <me@...in.cc>,
        Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references
 for device nodes

On Mon,  8 Oct 2018 13:08:48 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be> wrote:

> When converting from text to rst, the kobjects section and its sole
> subsection about device tree nodes were coalesced into a single section,
> yielding an inconsistent result.
> 
> Remove all references to kobjects, as
>   1. Device tree object pointers are not compatible to kobject pointers
>      (the former may embed the latter, though), and
>   2. there are no printk formats defined for kobject types.
> 
> Update the vsprintf() source code comments to match the above.
> 
> Fixes: b3ed23213eab1e08 ("doc: convert printk-formats.txt to rst")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>

Applied, thanks.

jon