We deprecated '%pF/%pf' printk specifiers, since '%pS/%ps' is now smart
enough to handle function pointer dereference on platforms where such
dereference is required.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <a...@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3453df9f90ab..d081a2b7166e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5752,18 +5752,25 @@ sub process {
                        for (my $count = $linenr; $count <= $lc; $count++) {
                                my $fmt = get_quoted_string($lines[$count - 1], 
raw_line($count, 0));
                                $fmt =~ s/%%//g;
-                               if ($fmt =~ 
/(\%[\*\d\.]*p(?![\WFfSsBKRraEhMmIiUDdgVCbGNO]).)/) {
+                               if ($fmt =~ 
/(\%[\*\d\.]*p(?![\WSsBKRraEhMmIiUDdgVCbGNO]).)/) {
                                        $bad_extension = $1;
                                        last;
                                }
                        }
                        if ($bad_extension ne "") {
                                my $stat_real = raw_line($linenr, 0);
+                               my $ext_type = "Invalid";
+                               my $use = "";
                                for (my $count = $linenr + 1; $count <= $lc; 
$count++) {
                                        $stat_real = $stat_real . "\n" . 
raw_line($count, 0);
                                }
+                               if ($bad_extension =~ /p[Ff]/) {
+                                       $ext_type = "Deprecated";
+                                       $use = " - use %pS instead";
+                                       $use =~ s/pS/ps/ if ($bad_extension =~ 
/pf/);
+                               }
                                WARN("VSPRINTF_POINTER_EXTENSION",
-                                    "Invalid vsprintf pointer extension 
'$bad_extension'\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n");
+                                    "$ext_type vsprintf pointer extension 
'$bad_extension'$use\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n");
                        }
                }
 
-- 
2.15.0

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