Ignored argument:
- %pn
+ %n %n
- The argument passed will be ignored.
+ The argument passed will be ignored. In other words, literal "%n" will
+ be in the output and the argument will be considered for next format
+ specifier.
Thank you for your cooperation and attention.
* - 'Cr' For a clock, it prints the current rate of the clock
* - 'n' For ignored argument
*
- * ** Please update Documentation/printk-formats.txt when making changes **
+ * ** Please update also Documentation/printk-formats.txt when making changes **
*
* Note: The difference between 'S' and 'F' is that on ia64 and ppc64
* function pointers are really function descriptors, which contain a
* @fmt: The format string to use
* @args: Arguments for the format string
*
- * This function follows C99 vsnprintf, but has some extensions. See
- * pointer() or Documentation/printk-formats.txt for all format
- * specifiers.
+ * This function follows C99 vsnprintf, but has some extensions:
+ * %n is ignored
+ * %p* is handled by pointer()
+ *
+ * See pointer() or Documentation/printk-formats.txt for more
+ * extensive description.
*
- * ** Please update the documentation when making changes **
+ * ** Please update the documentation on both places when making changes **
*
* The return value is the number of characters which would
* be generated for the given input, excluding the trailing