Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Remove support for %pF and %pf in favour of %pS and %ps

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Mar 25 2019 - 05:30:17 EST


On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:21 PM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> %pS and %ps are now the preferred conversion specifiers to print function
> %names. The functionality is equivalent; remove the old, deprecated %pF
> %and %pf support.

Are %pF and %pf really not used any more in the kernel?

If that is not the case, you need to convert the remaining users of
them to using %ps or %pS before making support for them go away
completely.

That said, checkpatch can be made treat %pf/F as invalid format right away IMO.