From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:28:33 -0700
Message-ID: <1505960913.12311.18.camel@perches.com>
References: <20170920162910.32053-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
         <20170920162910.32053-8-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
         <1505929138.12311.5.camel@perches.com>
         <20170921002717.GA773@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
        Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
        linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Return-path: <linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170921002717.GA773@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain>
List-ID: <linux-ia64.vger.kernel.org>
List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org

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 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:
> 
> sure, can tweak the patch.
> 
> [..]
> >  			if ($bad_extension ne "") {
> >  				my $stat_real = raw_line($linenr, 0);
> > +				my $ext_type = "Invalid";
> > +				my $use = "";
> >  				for (my $count = $linenr + 1; $count <= $lc; $count++) {
> >  					$stat_real = $stat_real . "\n" . raw_line($count, 0);
> >  				}
> > +				if ($bad_extension =~ /p[Ff]/i) {
> 
> 						I think /i is not necessary here

You are right, it's not.