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

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (09/20/17 11:24), Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 19:53 +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
[..]
> > Is it worth to mention, that it's still needed in older kernels?
> > Just in case some patch get's backported.

good question.

> I think probably not.
> 
> There are relatively few references and
> modifications are unlikely to be backported.

I tend to agree.

unlikely anyone backports printk message updates. I have quickly glanced
through stable-4.9 and haven't seen such backports. well, may be there
are some.

can tweak the warning a bit, probably. e.g. "if you are planning to
backport your change to kernels older than 4.14 then ignore this
warning". but not sure if it's worth it.

	-ss