Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Apr 2018 14:30:10 +0200 | From | Petr Mladek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 4/9] vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers |
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On Fri 2018-04-06 07:27:19, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2018-04-06 at 15:17 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > > On 2018-04-06 13:43, Petr Mladek wrote: > > > On Thu 2018-04-05 16:55:35, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 16:45 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 16:25 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > > > > > > Even just git grep -1 -E '%p"$' finds %pt and %po > > > > > > which should get fixed before somebody claims those extensions. > > > > > > > > > > Neither %pt nor %po is used in a vsprintf > > > > > in the kernel. > > > > > > > > Nope, you are right, both are defectively used in the > > > > kernel via string concatenation. > > > > > > Ah, I see. > > > > Yes, that was the point of that particular grep pattern with context. I > > sent patches three years ago and several pings, but despite an email > > telling me it would be picked up "for the next release" nothing has > > happened, so I've just been waiting for someone to implement a %po. > > > > > Otherwise, the changes make perfect sense. Are you going to send > > > them as proper patches, please? > > > > Good luck. Unless Petr will be taking them through the printk tree? > > As the trivial maintainer seems to use a leaky bucket algorithm > for most trivial patches, I'll just retry and send actual > patches through Andrew Morton as patches through his quilt tree > seem to get upstream faster.
I could take them via printk.git. But Andrew is a good choice as well.
Best Regards, Petr
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