Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754484AbYGESkX (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:40:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751934AbYGESkK (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:40:10 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:44547 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751746AbYGESkI (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:40:08 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:40:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linus Torvalds cc: Vegard Nossum , Andrew Morton , Matthew Wilcox , Peter Anvin , "David S. Miller" , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: the printk problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20080705125230.GA20166@damson.getinternet.no> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 578 Lines: 17 On Saturday 2008-07-05 19:56, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > >> > How about %p{feature}? > >No. > >I _expressly_ chose '%p[alphanumeric]*' because it's basically >totally insane to have that in a *real* printk() string: the end result >would be totally unreadable. So, and what do you do when you run out of alphanumeric characters? -- 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/