netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Remove support for %pF and %pf in favour of %pS and %ps

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Date:   Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:49:01 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Remove support for %pF and %pf in favour of
 %pS and %ps

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:30 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:21 PM Sakari Ailus
> <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > %pS and %ps are now the preferred conversion specifiers to print function
> > %names. The functionality is equivalent; remove the old, deprecated %pF
> > %and %pf support.
>
> Are %pF and %pf really not used any more in the kernel?
>
> If that is not the case, you need to convert the remaining users of
> them to using %ps or %pS before making support for them go away
> completely.

Well, this is a [2/2] in a series, sorry for the noise (/me blames
gmail for the confusion).