Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: remove redundant and unused %pCn format specifier

Stephen Boyd
2025-03-07T23:38:48Z

Quoting Luca Ceresoli (2025-03-07 03:19:08)
> %pC and %pCn print the same string, and commit 900cca294425 ("lib/vsprintf:
> add %pC{,n,r} format specifiers for clocks") introducing them does not
> clarify any intended difference. It can be assumed %pC is a default for
> %pCn as some other specifiers do, but not all are consistent with this
> policy. Moreover there is now no other suffix other than 'n', which makes a
> default not really useful.
>
> All users in the kernel were using %pC except for one which has been
> converted. So now remove %pCn and all the unnecessary extra code and
> documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>