Add kerneldoc documentation for new printk format extensions
Add documentation in kerneldoc for new printk format extensions
This patch documents the new %pS/%pF options in printk in kernel doc.
Hope I didn't miss any other extension.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index c399bc1..4c6674a 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -565,6 +565,10 @@
* @fmt: The format string to use
* @args: Arguments for the format string
*
+ * This function follows C99 vsnprintf, but has some extensions:
+ * %pS output the name of a text symbol
+ * %pF output the name of a function pointer
+ *
* The return value is the number of characters which would
* be generated for the given input, excluding the trailing
* '\0', as per ISO C99. If you want to have the exact
@@ -806,6 +810,8 @@
*
* Call this function if you are already dealing with a va_list.
* You probably want scnprintf() instead.
+ *
+ * See the vsnprintf() documentation for format string extensions over C99.
*/
int vscnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
{
@@ -828,6 +834,8 @@
* generated for the given input, excluding the trailing null,
* as per ISO C99. If the return is greater than or equal to
* @size, the resulting string is truncated.
+ *
+ * See the vsnprintf() documentation for format string extensions over C99.
*/
int snprintf(char * buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, ...)
{
@@ -877,6 +885,8 @@
*
* Call this function if you are already dealing with a va_list.
* You probably want sprintf() instead.
+ *
+ * See the vsnprintf() documentation for format string extensions over C99.
*/
int vsprintf(char *buf, const char *fmt, va_list args)
{
@@ -894,6 +904,8 @@
* The function returns the number of characters written
* into @buf. Use snprintf() or scnprintf() in order to avoid
* buffer overflows.
+ *
+ * See the vsnprintf() documentation for format string extensions over C99.
*/
int sprintf(char * buf, const char *fmt, ...)
{