netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/acpi/acpica/utmisc.c: Use printk extension %pV

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Date:	Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:08:04 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/acpi/acpica/utmisc.c: Use printk extension %pV

On Monday, July 19, 2010 11:06:07 pm Joe Perches wrote:
> Consolidates the printk messages to a single
> call so the messages can not be interleaved.
> 
> Reduces text a bit.
> 
> $ size drivers/acpi/acpica/utmisc.o.*
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>    7822	     56	   1832	   9710	   25ee	drivers/acpi/acpica/utmisc.o.old
>    7748	     56	   1736	   9540	   2544	drivers/acpi/acpica/utmisc.o.new
> 
> Depends on net-next commit 7db6f5fb65a82af03229eef104dc9899c5eecf33
> (vsprintf: Recursive vsnprintf: Add "%pV", struct va_format)

drivers/acpi/acpica/utmisc.c is part of the ACPI CA and is used in
several different OSes, but %pV sounds like a Linux-specific feature,
so I don't see how this patch can work.

Bjorn
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