Re: [PATCH v2] vsprintf: Add %p extension "%pOF" for device tree

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/22/2017 01:44 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> From: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 90% of the usage of device node's full_name is printing it out in a
>> kernel message. However, storing the full path for every node is
>> wasteful and redundant. With a custom format specifier, we can generate
>> the full path at run-time and eventually remove the full path from every
>> node.
>>
>> For instance typical use is:
>>       pr_info("Frobbing node %s\n", node->full_name);
>>
>> Which can be written now as:
>>       pr_info("Frobbing node %pOF\n", node);
>
>
> isn't OF for flags -- and Of for full name?
> Typo or a change in the last 2 years?

It changed in the discussion 2 years ago. The intent is:

%pO - kobj
%pOF - device_node, defaulting to full name

There's no support of base kobj's, but I guess I should make that
intent clear in the documentation.

Rob