From: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] vsprintf: remove redundant %pCn format specifier
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 13:30:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250307133003.09f1328f@booty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdUeThsk5tSaMnT-6BqO6XSMTTDo1Q9kRgJ_d5iC7MTdcw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 13:13:19 +0100
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 at 12:19, Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > There are two printk format specifiers for clocks: %pC and %pCn, and they
> > print exactly the same string. The reason for having two is not totally
> > clear (see discussion in patch 2), but there seem to be no advantage in
> > having two instead of one.
> >
> > Definitely having two without properly documenting they do the same creates
> > misunderstandings [0].
> >
> > Since %pCn is used in a single place, replace it with %pC and remove %pCn
> > to simplify such format specifiers implementation and avoid
> > misunderstandings.
> >
> > [0] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/71c44221-b18b-4928-8faf-00893ec4a109@nxp.com/
>
> The link looks unrelated?
Wrong link, sorry. The correct one
is: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/f8df2b5e-b005-4ada-8108-159b2b94a72e@nxp.com/
Luca
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-07 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-07 11:19 [PATCH 0/2] vsprintf: remove redundant %pCn format specifier Luca Ceresoli
2025-03-07 11:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] thermal: bcm2835: use %pC instead of %pCn Luca Ceresoli
2025-03-07 12:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-03-10 15:41 ` Daniel Lezcano
2025-03-07 11:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: remove redundant and unused %pCn format specifier Luca Ceresoli
2025-03-07 12:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-03-07 17:17 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-03-07 23:34 ` Luca Ceresoli
2025-03-10 8:17 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-03-10 11:23 ` Luca Ceresoli
2025-03-07 23:38 ` Stephen Boyd
2025-03-07 12:13 ` [PATCH 0/2] vsprintf: remove redundant " Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-03-07 12:30 ` Luca Ceresoli [this message]
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