linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: pcmcia: fix checkpatch.pl issues in soc

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Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:56:34 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Marcelo Jimenez <mroberto@...i.cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: pcmcia: fix checkpatch.pl issues in soc_common.c

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:20:19 -0300, Marcelo Jimenez said:

>> -     debug(skt, 2, "mask: %s%s%s%s%s%sflags: %s%s%s%s%s%sVcc %d Vpp %d irq %d\n",

> I will redo it, no problem. But just for my information, in that
> particular case, is it usefull to grep using format specifiers?

Until you find the format string, you really don't know for sure if
it's a %d or a %u or a %alt-ctl-cokebottle so you end up grepping like this:

egrep 'mask: .*flags: .*Vcc .* Vpp .* irq'

basically wildcarding your way across whatever %foo might be there.

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