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

- From: Rafael J. Wysocki \<rafael@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2019-03-25 09:30:16 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2019/03/5548800
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-arm-kernel/2019/03/5546992/t.md

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On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:21 PM Sakari Ailus
[ref] 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.
```