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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>

To: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>

Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@...>, <yhlu.kernel@...>, <akpm@...>, <mingo@...>, <tglx@...>, <steiner@...>, <travis@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <ying.huang@...>, <andi@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not decimal in some kernel info printks

Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 10:42 am

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
quoted text> 
> Any reason we can't just re-define %p to print the 0x prefix, just as glibc
> does?  It'd be easy enough to go and sed out all the 0x%p's currently in the
> kernel.

You didn't listen. I want #p to do the _symbolic_ address. The thing we 
have in the backtraces etc. With nice symbol offset information etc.

The '0x<hex>' thing isn't all that interesting. You can do it by adding 
the '0x' by hand, or by using a cast and using %#lx instead.

		Linus
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Re: [PATCH 0/5 v2] x86 boot: various E820 & EFI related ..., Paul Jackson, (Tue Jun 24, 7:30 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/5 v2] x86 boot: various E820 & EFI related ..., H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Jun 24, 11:45 am)

[PATCH 5/5 v2] x86 boot: more consistently use type int for ..., Paul Jackson, (Sun Jun 22, 10:22 am)

[PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not decim..., Paul Jackson, (Sun Jun 22, 10:22 am)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Jun 22, 3:38 pm)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Paul Jackson, (Mon Jun 23, 7:09 am)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Yinghai Lu, (Tue Jun 24, 5:29 pm)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Paul Jackson, (Tue Jun 24, 9:32 pm)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Jun 24, 9:56 pm)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Paul Jackson, (Tue Jun 24, 10:17 pm)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Jun 24, 10:18 pm)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jun 24, 10:58 pm)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Jun 25, 1:05 am)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Paul Jackson, (Tue Jun 24, 11:08 pm)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jun 25, 12:04 am)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Johannes Berg, (Wed Jun 25, 11:00 am)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jun 25, 11:19 am)

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Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Johannes Berg, (Wed Jun 25, 11:34 am)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Ingo Molnar, (Wed Jun 25, 10:53 am)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Sam Ravnborg, (Thu Jun 26, 3:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Ingo Molnar, (Fri Jun 27, 8:00 am)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Sam Ravnborg, (Fri Jun 27, 5:25 pm)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Paul Jackson, (Wed Jun 25, 4:04 am)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Jun 25, 1:01 am)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jun 25, 10:42 am)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Jun 25, 11:29 am)

Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not d..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jun 24, 11:00 pm)

[PATCH 3/5 v2] x86 boot: allow overlapping early reserve mem..., Paul Jackson, (Sun Jun 22, 10:22 am)

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