Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] include/checkpatch: Prefer __scanf to__attribute__((format(scanf, ...)

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 21:47 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 04:01:12PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > It's equivalent to __printf, so prefer __scanf.
> So ... looking at this patch it just seems to macro-fy the
> __printf and __scanf attributes.

It's just for __scanf.  The __printf change is just
a neatening/spacing change.

> Is this required to make
> cleanpatch.pl work easier?

No.  It's a trivial symmetry patch added to
make fewer uses of __attribute__((format(...)
similar to the __printf commit from awhile ago.

commit b9075fa968a0a4347aef35e235e2995c0e57dddd

> And there is also some checkpatch.pl features. Should that part
> be in a seperate patch?

I think it's OK to do the whole thing at once.

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