linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: don't warn about new vsprintf pointer extension '%pe'

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Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:33:50 +0100
From:   Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: don't warn about new vsprintf pointer
 extension '%pe'

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 11:24:40AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Thu 2019-11-14 11:04:16, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > This extension was introduced in commit 57f5677e535b ("printf: add
> > support for printing symbolic error names").
> 
> Great catch!

It wasn't hard to catch. checkpatch pelted me with bogus warnings when I
started to make use of %pe :-)

> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > index 6fcc66afb088..31cd9b767c1e 100755
> > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > @@ -6022,7 +6022,7 @@ sub process {
> >  				while ($fmt =~ /(\%[\*\d\.]*p(\w))/g) {
> >  					$specifier = $1;
> >  					$extension = $2;
> > -					if ($extension !~ /[SsBKRraEhMmIiUDdgVCbGNOxt]/) {
> > +					if ($extension !~ /[SsBKRraeEhMmIiUDdgVCbGNOxt]/) {
> 
> I am going to push it into printk.git. I will just change the ordering
> "eE" -> "Ee". So that it follows the existing convention.

Fine for me. Thanks
Uwe

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