linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] use lspci style for [%04x:%04x] vendor/device

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Message-Id: <200808261055.11614.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:55:11 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] use lspci style for [%04x:%04x] vendor/device

On Monday 25 August 2008 05:53:13 pm Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:05:25PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:01:38 -0600
> > Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com> wrote:
> > 
> > > These patches change various debug messages to use "[%04x:%04x]" for
> > > PCI vendor/device IDs to follow the format used by lspci(8).
> > 
> > I hope you're adding a new whicked special format specifier for this
> > ... taking a PCI dev struct as argument.
> > 
> > That's be really nice to have;-)
> 
> You should sign Treaty of the Non-Proliferation of Format Specifiers.
> 
> Untill too late...

OK.  I'll wait with any new format specifiers for now.  Relative to
something like printing resources, where a new format specifier could
help get rid of a ton of ugly casts, this PCI vendor/device stuff
is pretty minor.

Bjorn

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