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Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate %pF/%pf printk specifiers

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Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> writes:

> On (09/22/17 16:48), Luck, Tony wrote:
> [..]
>> Tested patch series on ia64 successfully.
>> 
>> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
>
> thanks!
>
>> After this goes upstream, you should submit a patch to get rid of
>> all uses of %pF (70 instances in 35 files) and %pf (63 in 34)
>> 
>> Perhaps break the patch by top-level directory (e.g. get all the %pF
>> and %pF in the 17 files under drivers/ in one patch).
>
> frankly, I was going to have some sort of a lazy deprecation process:
> didn't plan to send out a patch set that would hunt down all pf/pF-s.
> hm...

That never works though, we have lots of cruft left over from times when
that's happened and the conversion never quite got finished.

At least if you send out the patches to do the removal they might
eventually get merged.

> speaking of upstream, any objections if this patch set will go through
> the printk tree, in one piece?

Do you mind putting it in a topic branch (based on rc2) and then merge
that into the printk tree? That way I can merge the topic branch iff
there are conflicts later down the line towards 4.15.

cheers

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[RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate %pF/%pf printk specifiers Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 18:30 +0200
  [RFC][PATCH v2 2/7] sections: split dereference_function_descriptor() Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 18:30 +0200
  [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 18:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 18:40 +0200
  [RFC][PATCH v2 1/7] switch dereference_function_descriptor() to `unsigned long' Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 18:40 +0200
  [RFC][PATCH v2 5/7] parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 18:40 +0200
  [RFC][PATCH v2 4/7] powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 18:40 +0200
  [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 18:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-09-20 19:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2017-09-20 20:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-09-20 20:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-09-21 09:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-09-21 02:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-09-21 04:30 +0200
  [RFC][PATCH v2 6/7] symbol lookup: use new kernel and module dereference functions Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 18:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 6/7] symbol lookup: use new kernel and module  dereference functions Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-09-21 11:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate  %pF/%pf printk specifiers Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2017-09-20 22:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate  %pF/%pf printk specifiers Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-09-21 02:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate  %pF/%pf printk specifiers Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org> - 2017-09-22 07:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate  %pF/%pf printk specifiers Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-09-22 10:10 +0200
      RE: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate  %pF/%pf printk specifiers "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2017-09-22 18:50 +0200
        Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate  %pF/%pf printk specifiers Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-09-25 09:10 +0200
          RE: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate  %pF/%pf printk specifiers "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2017-09-25 18:40 +0200
            Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate  %pF/%pf printk specifiers Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2017-09-25 19:10 +0200
          Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate %pF/%pf printk specifiers Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-09-27 07:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate %pF/%pf printk specifiers Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-09-27 08:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate  %pF/%pf printk specifiers Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 03:20 +0200

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