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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 01:38:52 -0800
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] printk and dma_addr_t
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > dma_addr_t type.   So the above usage will become
> > >
> > >       printk("stuff: " DMA_ADDR_T_FMT " %s", a, s);
> >
> > Vomit. How about adding a dma_addr_t %code to the printk function ?
> 
> heh, my comment on the patch was, "about as good as you can do without
> teaching printk and gcc about the type"

we could do:

	char *format_dma_addr_t(char *buf, dma_addr_t a);

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