linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 06/11] lib/vsprintf: introduce %pl to print in human-readable form

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:04:45 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Robert Elliott <elliott@....com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	Hariprasad S <hariprasad@...lsio.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/11] lib/vsprintf: introduce %pl to print in
 human-readable form

On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 00:23 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Introduce a new extension for printing given unsigned long long value in
> human-readable form with automatically choosen IEC binary prefix. The value is
> passed by reference.

Perhaps there should be some 1, 2, 4, 8 argument so that
u8, u16, u32, and u64 can all use this extension and not
just unsigned long long.