Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 15:24:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Recursive printk
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On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Nick Andrew wrote:
>
> I agree completely. I was hoping somebody could tell me how to include
> '%v' in gcc's acceptable list, but it seems impossible. The alternative
> then is to use '%pV%s' which gcc _should_ like (I haven't tested it,
> but it seems reasonable) and reverse the order of the fmt and args
> in the function call arguments.

Don't do %pV%s, do just %pV, and pass it a pointer to a struct, something 
like

	struct va_format {
		const char *fmt;
		va_list va;
	};

and make people who use this just always pass things around like that.

(Maybe use "va_list *va" to add another level of indirection if necessary)

		Linus
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