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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 07:24:12 -0600 From: Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org> To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: Fix bus resource assignment on 32 bits with 64b resources On Dec 6, 2007, at 2:16 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:58:54PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > wrote: >> I was just hoping somebody had a better idea, like a way to add a new >> format specifier to printk without losing gcc type checking :-) > > It's been discussed before. Some of the solutions discussed: > > - Add something like PRI_RES which can be concatenated into a printk. > Ugly. > - Patch gcc to allow user-definable types. I think OpenBSD has a > patch > for this. Then we have to get that patch propagated to all the > people who compile the kernel. Unappetising. > - Disable gcc's printk checking, teach sparse to typecheck printk. > Most people don't run sparse yet. How does gcc deal with glibc extension to allow people to add their own specifiers? http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Customizing-Printf.html - k -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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