Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754316AbYGESoW (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:44:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751723AbYGESoO (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:44:14 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38531 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751691AbYGESoO (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:44:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:44:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jan Engelhardt 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 (LFD 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: 812 Lines: 24 On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > So, and what do you do when you run out of alphanumeric characters? Did you actually look at my patch? It's not a single alnum character. It's an arbitrary sequence of alnum characters. IOW, my patch allows %p6N or something like that for showing a ipv6 "NIP" format string etc. Or you could spell them out even more, although I consider it unlikely that you really want to see too many of these, since gcc won't actually be able to type-check them (so they will always remain _secondary_ formats). Linus -- 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/