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[v9,08/12] lib/vsprintf: Add a note on re-using %pf or %pF

Message ID 20191003123219.11237-9-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Mainlined, archived
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Series Device property improvements, add %pfw format specifier | expand

Commit Message

Sakari Ailus Oct. 3, 2019, 12:32 p.m. UTC
Add a note warning of re-use of obsolete %pf or %pF extensions.

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 lib/vsprintf.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Comments

Petr Mladek Oct. 8, 2019, 11:54 a.m. UTC | #1
On Thu 2019-10-03 15:32:15, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Add a note warning of re-use of obsolete %pf or %pF extensions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

Best Regards,
Petr
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diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index a58329c8fa750..cf48769fe330c 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -2008,6 +2008,8 @@  static char *kobject_string(char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
  * - 'S' For symbolic direct pointers (or function descriptors) with offset
  * - 's' For symbolic direct pointers (or function descriptors) without offset
  * - '[Ss]R' as above with __builtin_extract_return_addr() translation
+ * - '[Ff]' %pf and %pF were obsoleted and later removed in favor of
+ *	    %ps and %pS. Be careful when re-using these specifiers.
  * - 'B' For backtraced symbolic direct pointers with offset
  * - 'R' For decoded struct resource, e.g., [mem 0x0-0x1f 64bit pref]
  * - 'r' For raw struct resource, e.g., [mem 0x0-0x1f flags 0x201]