Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 12:07:45 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] printk: Add %pb to print bitmaps
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On Wed, 09 May 2012 15:27:23 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> + * - 'b' For a bitmap, consumes 2 args, second is int

There's a pretty widespread convention that %b is used to print in
binary: printf("%b", 10) -> 1010.  Regrettably it isn't part of
standard C, but it's often supported anyway.  Perl's printf does this
as well.  Perl uses %B also.

If we later want to add binary printing to kernel print(), we'd presumably
use %pb, to match this precedent.

So perhaps it would be better to avoid consuming `b' for bitmaps?
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