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

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Sep 20 2017 - 13:39:09 EST


On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 01:29 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> 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:
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index dd2c262aebbf..71f3273d5913 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5762,18 +5762,25 @@ 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 $ext_type = "Invalid";
+ my $use = "";
  for (my $count = $linenr + 1; $count <= $lc; $count++) {
  $stat_real = $stat_real . "\n" . raw_line($count, 0);
  }
+ if ($bad_extension =~ /p[Ff]/i) {
+ $ext_type = "Deprecated";
+ $use = " - use %pS instead";
+ $use =~ s/pS/ps/ if ($bad_extension =~ /pf/);
+ }
  WARN("VSPRINTF_POINTER_EXTENSION",
-      "Invalid vsprintf pointer extension '$bad_extension'\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n");
+      "$ext_type vsprintf pointer extension '$bad_extension'$use\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n");
  }
  }