On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:21 PM Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > %pS and %ps are now the preferred conversion specifiers to print function > %names. The functionality is equivalent; remove the old, deprecated %pF > %and %pf support. Are %pF and %pf really not used any more in the kernel? If that is not the case, you need to convert the remaining users of them to using %ps or %pS before making support for them go away completely. That said, checkpatch can be made treat %pf/F as invalid format right away IMO.