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Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2017 16:25:42 +1100
From:   "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Andrew Murray <amurray@...-data.co.uk>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: convert printk-formats.txt to rst

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 04:39:58PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 12/06/2017 01:16 PM, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 10:18:49AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for your comments Randy.
> > 
> 
> >>>  Documentation/index.rst                            |  10 +
> >>>  .../{printk-formats.txt => printk-formats.rst}     | 295 ++++++++++++---------
> >>>  lib/vsprintf.c                                     | 160 +++++------
> >>>  3 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 230 deletions(-)
> >>>  rename Documentation/{printk-formats.txt => printk-formats.rst} (61%)
> >>
> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt b/Documentation/printk-formats.rst
> >>> similarity index 61%
> >>> rename from Documentation/printk-formats.txt
> >>> rename to Documentation/printk-formats.rst
> >>> index aa0a776c817a..51449d213748 100644
> >>> --- a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
> >>> +++ b/Documentation/printk-formats.rst
> 
> >>> @@ -194,8 +233,8 @@ printing SSIDs.
> >>>  
> >>>  If field width is omitted the 1 byte only will be escaped.
> >>
> >>                              then
> >> I think...
> > 
> > Ha ha, I was borderline with this change when doing this patch. It may
> > not appear so but I did try to do the minimal amount of changes while
> > improving correctness. I appreciate your comments since hopefully I can
> > better make these judgment calls next time.
> 
> I wasn't so sure about that attempt (at minimal changes).  :)

ROFL

> > Will change as suggested.
> 
> >>>  Where no additional specifiers are used the default big endian
> >>> -order with lower case hex characters will be printed.
> >>> +order with lower case hex digits will be printed.
> >>
> >> digits could imply base 10. but no big deal.
> > 
> > Are you sure about this? I was under the impression that when
> > representing a number the character set used are refereed to as 'digits'
> > irrespective of base.
> > 
> > hexadecimal digit
> > octal digit
> > digit (assumed base 10)
> > 
> > Open to correction though.
> 
> Like I said, I don't care strongly about this. (I'm easy.)
> but hex notation (like you said later) sounds good.

Got it.

thanks,
Tobin.

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