Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add warning on %pk instead of %pK usage

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Feb 10 2017 - 19:02:57 EST


On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 23:54 +0000, Roberts, William C wrote:
> > The problem starts to get hairy when we think of how often folks roll their own
> > logging macros (see some small sampling at the end).

It's not just the "hairy" local macros.

In its current form, checkpatch could not find uses like:

netif_<foo>(x, y, z,
"some string with %pk",
args);
and
some_logging_function(arg, "string 1" CONSTANT "string 2", etc...)

if string 2 or CONSTANT had the "%pk" use.

and a bunch of other styles.

This really needs to be verified by the compiler.