I've pulled this into the dma-mapping for-next branch so that we get
a few days exposure before then end of the merge window. If there is
anything important (e.g. the powerpc naming issue) please send
incremental patches.
From sergey.senozhatsky.work at gmail.com Tue Jan 16 18:36:37 2018
From: sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx (Sergey Senozhatsky)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:36:37 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 00/13] replace print_symbol() with printk()-s
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On (01/16/18 17:33), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> > JFI, the patch is in Linus's tree as of now (d0729bc6bee797fb).
>
> Great. I have pushed the patch that removes printk_symbol()
> into printk.git, branch for-4.16-print-symbol.
>
> Note that I have updated the commit message similar way
> like I did for the other commits. Especially I wanted
> to mention what it was obsoleted by. The message is:
>
> kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
>
> No more print_symbol()/__print_symbol() users left, remove these
> symbols.
>
> It was a very old API that encouraged people use continuous lines.
> It had been obsoleted by %pS format specifier in a normal printk()
> call.
>
>
> See also
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk.git/commit/?h=for-4.16-print-symbol&id=d2279c9d7f7db7f97567368bfc4539b3411adf8d
thanks!
-ss
