netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] workqueue: Have 'alloc_workqueue()' like macros accept a format specifier

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Date:   Mon, 19 Apr 2021 06:22:31 -0400
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc:     jiangshanlai@...il.com, saeedm@...dia.com, leon@...nel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, bvanassche@....org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] workqueue: Have 'alloc_workqueue()' like macros
 accept a format specifier

Hello, Christophe.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:25:52PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Improve 'create_workqueue', 'create_freezable_workqueue' and
> 'create_singlethread_workqueue' so that they accept a format
> specifier and a variable number of arguments.
> 
> This will put these macros more in line with 'alloc_ordered_workqueue' and
> the underlying 'alloc_workqueue()' function.

Those interfaces are deprecated and if you're doing anything with the users,
the right course of action would be converting them to use one of the
alloc_workqueue interfaces.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun