On 20.09.2017 19:38, Joe Perches wrote:

On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 01:29 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:

quoted

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'

If this series is accepted,  I think this message
is unclear and would prefer something like:

Is it worth to mention, that it's still needed in older kernels?
Just in case some patch get's backported.

Helge