Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756549AbYFYFGd (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:06:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752526AbYFYFGZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:06:25 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:38912 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752376AbYFYFGY (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:06:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4861D230.7040101@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:05:52 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Paul Jackson , yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, steiner@sgi.com, travis@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ying.huang@intel.com, andi@firstfloor.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not decimal in some kernel info printks References: <20080622142151.5591.4139.sendpatchset@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <20080622142212.5591.64592.sendpatchset@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <86802c440806221238g78300952t2fc7f406c1842273@mail.gmail.com> <20080623060939.6b6b3183.pj@sgi.com> <86802c440806241429s7f5e899dn67d42303247f618@mail.gmail.com> <20080624203252.f932c631.pj@sgi.com> <4861A5DF.5010104@zytor.com> <20080624211711.8c6d5105.pj@sgi.com> <4861AAEF.3020103@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 19 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And yes, to avoid messing with current users, maybe we should only do that > with %#p (which I don't think anybody uses right now, although I suspect > it actually adds the '0x' you'd like). The '#' thing is, of course, all > about 'alternate forms'. But I worry that gcc warns about undefined > formatting behavior. > FWIW, I did a pass over the tree stripping out all the 0x%p's and changing the behaviour about a year ago. It ended up sitting around and not be submitted, but I'd be happy to re-do it. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/