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[RFC,v2,7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

Message ID 20170920162910.32053-8-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Awaiting Upstream, archived
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Sergey Senozhatsky Sept. 20, 2017, 4:29 p.m. UTC
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'

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index dd2c262aebbf..5945e4843466 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5762,18 +5762,20 @@  sub process {
 		        for (my $count = $linenr; $count <= $lc; $count++) {
 				my $fmt = get_quoted_string($lines[$count - 1], raw_line($count, 0));
 				$fmt =~ s/%%//g;
-				if ($fmt =~ /(\%[\*\d\.]*p(?![\WFfSsBKRraEhMmIiUDdgVCbGNO]).)/) {
+				if ($fmt =~ /(\%[\*\d\.]*p(?![\WSsBKRraEhMmIiUDdgVCbGNO]).)/) {
 					$bad_extension = $1;
 					last;
 				}
 			}
 			if ($bad_extension ne "") {
 				my $stat_real = raw_line($linenr, 0);
+				my $error_msg = "Invalid vsprintf pointer extension ";
 				for (my $count = $linenr + 1; $count <= $lc; $count++) {
 					$stat_real = $stat_real . "\n" . raw_line($count, 0);
 				}
+				$error_msg = "Use '%pS/%ps' instead. This pointer extension was deprecated:" if ($bad_extension =~ /pF|pf/);
 				WARN("VSPRINTF_POINTER_EXTENSION",
-				     "Invalid vsprintf pointer extension '$bad_extension'\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n");
+				     "$error_msg '$bad_extension'\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n");
 			}
 		}