Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:43:51 +0900 | From | Sergey Senozhatsky <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning |
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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
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