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

[Helge Deller]

On 20.09.2017 19:38, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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:

Is it worth to mention, that it's still needed in older kernels?
Just in case some patch get's backported.

Helge