From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vsprintf: introduce %pf
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
       Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>, Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>,
       Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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> 
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 20:00, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > - * - 'F' For symbolic function descriptor pointers
> > > + * - 'F' For symbolic function descriptor pointers with asm offset
> > > + * - 'f' For simple function symbol
> > 
> > "asm" is weird here as it isnt an assembly offset (not that i have any
> > idea what an "assembly offset" even means).  just say "offset".
> 
> Or perhaps better: function offset, as it ususally means the offset into 
> the function.

maybe No. 

if %pf point to global function, offset is meaningless
(only have internal meaning)
it point to static function, offset mean offset against previous symbol.

perhaps, the symbol can non function symbol...


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