Re: [PATCH 00/13] replace print_symbol() with printk()-s

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 11:47 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (12/11/17 08:26), Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 21:50 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > print_symbol
> > Yay.
> > Just about exactly 5 years earlier...
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-December/137121.html
> 
> indeed :)
> 
> hopefully it won't take us another 5 years to finally
[]
> diff --git a/include/linux/kallsyms.h b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
[]
> -static inline void print_symbol(const char *fmt, unsigned long addr)
> +static inline void __deprecated print_symbol(const char *fmt,
> +					     unsigned long addr)
>  {
>  	__check_printsym_format(fmt, "");
>  	__print_symbol(fmt, (unsigned long)

As far as I'm concerned, as soon as there is
no longer a single user in the kernel tree,
better to delete it instead.