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

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Fri Jan 05 2018 - 09:57:49 EST


On (01/05/18 15:42), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> > oh, one more thing. one extra patch, which gets rid of
> > print_symbol()/__print_symbol().
>
> I am all for it. But I would postpone this removal to 4.17.
> The reason is rather ugly. 13th patch is already in arc tree.
> We would need to shuffle the patch or coordinate pull requests.
> I think that it is not worth it. There is no real hurry.
> I doubt that the would be any new user in the meantime.
>
> Best Regards,
> Petr
>
> PS: I have just pushed 12 patches into printk.git for-4.16 branch.
> I will merge this to linux-next branch on Monday. I will not
> be around the computer over the weekend...

OK. thanks!

-ss