Re: [PATCH 0/9] remove some of unneeded kallsyms includes

Andrew Morton
2017-12-08T22:24:44Z

On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 11:56:07 +0900 Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:

> A small patch set that removes some kallsyms includes
> here and there. Mostly those kallsyms includes are leftovers:
> printk() gained %pS/%pF modifiers support some time ago, so
> print_symbol() and friends became sort of unneeded [along with
> print_fn_descriptor_symbol() deprecation], thus some of the
> users were converted to pS/pF. This patch set just cleans up
> that convertion.
>
> We still have a number of print_symbol() users [which
> must be converted to ps/pf, print_symbol() uses a stack buffer
> KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN to do what printk(ps/pf) can do], but this is
> out of scope.
>
> I compile tested the patch set; but, as always and
> usual, would be great if 0day build robot double check it.

I grabbed everything and shall drop any patches which later turn up in
the various subsystem trees.