Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751802AbYJQEFK (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:05:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751420AbYJQEE3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:04:29 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:42684 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751367AbYJQEE2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:04:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:04:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20081016.210404.151891223.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, rdreier@cisco.com, Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split() From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <1224214314.7654.65.camel@pasglop> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 19 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:49:00 -0700 (PDT) > But it would be kind of nice to be able to do extended flags. Maybe we > could do it with > > %p04R > > and the 04 would be parsed as flags, the same way we do %04x. And then if > you want the 0x, you can use %p#08R.. These modifiers are interesting, but wouldn't it be even nicer to just pick one output style and use it consistently in kernel messages for resources? -- 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/