linux-kernel - Re: + lib-vsprintf-split-out-sprintf-and-friends.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

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Message-ID: <ZNuODCU2i0Mr2l8R@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:39:08 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, senozhatsky@...omium.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, pmladek@...e.com, linux@...musvillemoes.dk,
        glider@...gle.com, elver@...gle.com, dvyukov@...gle.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: + lib-vsprintf-split-out-sprintf-and-friends.patch added to
 mm-nonmm-unstable branch

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 05:24:27PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 11:37:51AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

...

> > +__scanf(2, 3) int sscanf(const char *, const char *, ...);
> > +__scanf(2, 0) int vsscanf(const char *, const char *, va_list);
> 
> I'd suggest to leave scanf alone and rename file to printf.h
> Some archs have such files already (printf.c)

if you are talking about these

$ git ls-files */printf.c
arch/m68k/sun3/prom/printf.c
arch/sparc/prom/printf.c
arch/x86/boot/printf.c

they have no business with the main Linux kernel code.

I don't think we need to go that direction.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko