Re: the printk problem

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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@...>, Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, David S. Miller <davem@...>, <linux-ia64@...>, <linuxppc-dev@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 2:44 pm

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

Did you actually look at my patch?

It's not a single alnum character. It's an arbitrary sequence of alnum 
characters. IOW, my patch allows

	%p6N

or something like that for showing a ipv6 "NIP" format string etc. Or you 
could spell them out even more, although I consider it unlikely that you 
really want to see too many of these, since gcc won't actually be able to 
type-check them (so they will always remain _secondary_ formats).

			Linus
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Re: the printk problem, Andrew Morton, (Fri Jul 4, 6:01 pm)
Re: the printk problem, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Jul 5, 7:33 am)
Re: the printk problem, Vegard Nossum, (Sat Jul 5, 8:52 am)
Re: the printk problem, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Jul 5, 1:56 pm)
Re: the printk problem, Vegard Nossum, (Sat Jul 5, 2:41 pm)
Re: the printk problem, Matthew Wilcox, (Sat Jul 5, 2:52 pm)
Re: the printk problem, Pekka Enberg, (Sat Jul 5, 8:02 pm)
Re: the printk problem, Randy Dunlap, (Sun Jul 6, 1:17 am)
Re: the printk problem, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Jul 5, 2:40 pm)
Re: the printk problem, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Jul 5, 2:44 pm)
Re: the printk problem, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Jul 5, 9:24 am)
Re: the printk problem, Vegard Nossum, (Sat Jul 5, 9:50 am)
Re: the printk problem, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Jul 5, 10:07 am)
Re: the printk problem, Denys Vlasenko, (Sat Jul 5, 6:20 am)
Re: the printk problem, Matthew Wilcox, (Fri Jul 4, 10:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: th..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Tue Jul 22, 7:35 am)
Re: [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: th..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Tue Jul 22, 7:36 am)