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

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:09:39 -0500
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	steiner@....com, travis@....com, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ying.huang@...el.com,
	andi@...stfloor.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not decimal
 in some kernel info printks

Yinghai wrote:
> we should remove 0x,

I see some kernel hex prints either way, with or without, 0x.

In this case, in part because I was changing a decimal to a hex
format, and because it could be ambiguous (a hex number that
happened to use only [0-9] digits would be indistinguisable from
a decimal) I preferred using the 0x.

I see no clear answer here ... it seems to be a matter of taste.

> we should ... hex print out all the way...regarding mem pfn and
> memory address, memory size etc. except XXXMB. XXXKB...

I fixed the ones I noticed.  If you see print formats that you
would like to change, I will likely be in agreement to such a
patch.

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