The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: add %pt as a valid vsprintf extension has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-add-%pt-as-a-valid-vsprintf-extension.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-add-%25pt-as-a-valid-vsprintf-extension.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-add-%25pt-as-a-valid-vsprintf-extension.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: add %pt as a valid vsprintf extension 4d42c44727a0 ("lib/vsprintf: Print time and date in human readable format via %pt") introduced a new extension, %pt. Add it in the list of valid extensions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190314203719.29130-1-alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-%pt-as-a-valid-vsprintf-extension +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5979,7 +5979,7 @@ sub process { while ($fmt =~ /(\%[\*\d\.]*p(\w))/g) { $specifier = $1; $extension = $2; - if ($extension !~ /[SsBKRraEhMmIiUDdgVCbGNOx]/) { + if ($extension !~ /[SsBKRraEhMmIiUDdgVCbGNOxt]/) { $bad_specifier = $specifier; last; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-add-%pt-as-a-valid-vsprintf-extension.patch