Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

2017-09-21 Thread Sergey Senozhatsky
On (09/20/17 11:24), Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 19:53 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: [..] > > Is it worth to mention, that it's still needed in older kernels? > > Just in case some patch get's backported. good question. > I think probably not. > > There are relatively few references

Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

2017-09-20 Thread Joe Perches
On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 09:27 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > On (09/20/17 10:38), Joe Perches wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 01:29 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > > > We deprecated '%pF/%pf' printk specifiers, since '%pS/%ps' is now smart > > > enough to handle function pointer dereference o

Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

2017-09-20 Thread Sergey Senozhatsky
On (09/20/17 10:38), Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 01:29 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > > We deprecated '%pF/%pf' printk specifiers, since '%pS/%ps' is now smart > > enough to handle function pointer dereference on platforms where such > > dereference is required. > > > > checkpat

Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

2017-09-20 Thread Joe Perches
On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 19:53 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > On 20.09.2017 19:38, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 01:29 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > > > We deprecated '%pF/%pf' printk specifiers, since '%pS/%ps' is now smart > > > enough to handle function pointer dereference on plat

Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

2017-09-20 Thread Helge Deller
On 20.09.2017 19:38, Joe Perches wrote: On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 01:29 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: We deprecated '%pF/%pf' printk specifiers, since '%pS/%ps' is now smart enough to handle function pointer dereference on platforms where such dereference is required. checkpatch warning example:

Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

2017-09-20 Thread Joe Perches
On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 01:29 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > We deprecated '%pF/%pf' printk specifiers, since '%pS/%ps' is now smart > enough to handle function pointer dereference on platforms where such > dereference is required. > > checkpatch warning example: > > WARNING: Use '%pS/%ps' inst

Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

2017-09-20 Thread Sergey Senozhatsky
On (09/21/17 01:29), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > We deprecated '%pF/%pf' printk specifiers, since '%pS/%ps' is now smart > enough to handle function pointer dereference on platforms where such > dereference is required. > > checkpatch warning example: > > WARNING: Use '%pS/%ps' instead. This poin

[RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

2017-09-20 Thread Sergey Senozhatsky
We deprecated '%pF/%pf' printk specifiers, since '%pS/%ps' is now smart enough to handle function pointer dereference on platforms where such dereference is required. checkpatch warning example: WARNING: Use '%pS/%ps' instead. This pointer extension was deprecated: '%pF' Signed-off-by: Sergey Se

[RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

2017-09-20 Thread Sergey Senozhatsky
We deprecated '%pF/%pf' printk specifiers, since '%pS/%ps' is now smart enough to handle function pointer dereference on platforms where such dereference is required. checkpatch warning example: WARNING: Use '%pS/%ps' instead. This pointer extension was deprecated: '%pF' Signed-off-by: Sergey Se