Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming)

Quoth Andrew:

 - Most of MM.  Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their
   butts and review some threaded hugepages patches.

 - alpha

 - vfs bits

 - drivers/misc

 - a few core kerenl tweaks

 - printk() features

 - MAINTAINERS updates

 - backlight merge

 - leds merge

 - various lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

* akpm: (127 commits)
  epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings
  checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs
  kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> as obsolete
  llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix
  wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack
  fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks
  lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above()
  lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef
  lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space
  lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup
  lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions
  drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful
  leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink
  leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set()
  drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing
  drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed
  ...

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 8eefcf7..4c0d3b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -287,6 +287,8 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtos32_from_user(const char __user *s, size_t
 	return kstrtoint_from_user(s, count, base, res);
 }
 
+/* Obsolete, do not use.  Use kstrto<foo> instead */
+
 extern unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
 extern long simple_strtol(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
 extern unsigned long long simple_strtoull(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
@@ -296,20 +298,20 @@ extern long long simple_strtoll(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
 #define strict_strtoull	kstrtoull
 #define strict_strtoll	kstrtoll
 
-extern int sprintf(char * buf, const char * fmt, ...)
-	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)));
-extern int vsprintf(char *buf, const char *, va_list)
-	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 0)));
-extern int snprintf(char * buf, size_t size, const char * fmt, ...)
-	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 4)));
-extern int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
-	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 0)));
-extern int scnprintf(char * buf, size_t size, const char * fmt, ...)
-	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 4)));
-extern int vscnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
-	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 0)));
-extern char *kasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, ...)
-	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)));
+/* lib/printf utilities */
+
+extern __printf(2, 3) int sprintf(char *buf, const char * fmt, ...);
+extern __printf(2, 0) int vsprintf(char *buf, const char *, va_list);
+extern __printf(3, 4)
+int snprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, ...);
+extern __printf(3, 0)
+int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args);
+extern __printf(3, 4)
+int scnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, ...);
+extern __printf(3, 0)
+int vscnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args);
+extern __printf(2, 3)
+char *kasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, ...);
 extern char *kvasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, va_list args);
 
 extern int sscanf(const char *, const char *, ...)
@@ -374,13 +376,18 @@ extern const char hex_asc[];
 #define hex_asc_lo(x)	hex_asc[((x) & 0x0f)]
 #define hex_asc_hi(x)	hex_asc[((x) & 0xf0) >> 4]
 
-static inline char *pack_hex_byte(char *buf, u8 byte)
+static inline char *hex_byte_pack(char *buf, u8 byte)
 {
 	*buf++ = hex_asc_hi(byte);
 	*buf++ = hex_asc_lo(byte);
 	return buf;
 }
 
+static inline char * __deprecated pack_hex_byte(char *buf, u8 byte)
+{
+	return hex_byte_pack(buf, byte);
+}
+
 extern int hex_to_bin(char ch);
 extern int __must_check hex2bin(u8 *dst, const char *src, size_t count);
 
@@ -427,8 +434,8 @@ extern void tracing_start(void);
 extern void tracing_stop(void);
 extern void ftrace_off_permanent(void);
 
-static inline void __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2)))
-____trace_printk_check_format(const char *fmt, ...)
+static inline __printf(1, 2)
+void ____trace_printk_check_format(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
 }
 #define __trace_printk_check_format(fmt, args...)			\
@@ -467,13 +474,11 @@ do {									\
 		__trace_printk(_THIS_IP_, fmt, ##args);		\
 } while (0)
 
-extern int
-__trace_bprintk(unsigned long ip, const char *fmt, ...)
-	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)));
+extern __printf(2, 3)
+int __trace_bprintk(unsigned long ip, const char *fmt, ...);
 
-extern int
-__trace_printk(unsigned long ip, const char *fmt, ...)
-	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)));
+extern __printf(2, 3)
+int __trace_printk(unsigned long ip, const char *fmt, ...);
 
 extern void trace_dump_stack(void);
 
@@ -502,8 +507,8 @@ __ftrace_vprintk(unsigned long ip, const char *fmt, va_list ap);
 
 extern void ftrace_dump(enum ftrace_dump_mode oops_dump_mode);
 #else
-static inline int
-trace_printk(const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2)));
+static inline __printf(1, 2)
+int trace_printk(const char *fmt, ...);
 
 static inline void tracing_start(void) { }
 static inline void tracing_stop(void) { }