linux-kernel - Re: the printk problem

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807051142050.2815@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:44:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
cc:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the printk problem

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> So, and what do you do when you run out of alphanumeric characters?

Did you actually look at my patch?

It's not a single alnum character. It's an arbitrary sequence of alnum 
characters. IOW, my patch allows

	%p6N

or something like that for showing a ipv6 "NIP" format string etc. Or you 
could spell them out even more, although I consider it unlikely that you 
really want to see too many of these, since gcc won't actually be able to 
type-check them (so they will always remain _secondary_ formats).

			Linus
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