linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] lib/vsprintf: Add %pfw conversion specifier for printing fwnode names

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Date:   Tue, 26 Mar 2019 15:55:57 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        rafael@...nel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] lib/vsprintf: Add %pfw conversion specifier for
 printing fwnode names

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 03:39:47PM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 03:13:53PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 08:17:46PM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:

> > The patch series by Petr I mentioned takes care about OF case. But it doesn't
> > have covered yours by obvious reasons.
> 
> Do you happen to have a pointer to it?

Petr, can you share what is the state of affairs with that series?

> The behaviour on others is different indeed, you're generally printing a
> single item at a time. The question rather is, whether we want to be
> compatible with %pOF going forward or not. I'd prefer that, so using the
> fwnode API would be easier.

I would prefer to mimic %pOF and actually to deprecate it in favour of %pfw.
But it's just mine opinion. I'm skeptical about getting support on it.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko