Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:24:28 -0700 |
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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 platforms where such > > > dereference is required. > > > > > > checkpatch warning example: > > > > > > WARNING: Use '%pS/%ps' instead. This pointer extension was deprecated: '%pF' > > > > If this series is accepted, I think this message > > is unclear and would prefer something like: > > Is it worth to mention, that it's still needed in older kernels? > Just in case some patch get's backported.
I think probably not.
There are relatively few references and modifications are unlikely to be backported.
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