linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with

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Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:15:37 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	yhlu.kernel@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split()

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 18:45 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:41:27 +1100
> 
> > It has to be a pointer tho, thus what do we want ? Something that takes
> > a pointer to a resource_size_t or to a whole struct resource ? In the
> > later case, do we want to print the whole flags too ?
> 
> Yes, that's sort of the ugly aspect of this.
> 
> Taking a resource would be cool, and you could use some post modifier
> character to say which part to print

That's a good idea, there's quite a few areas where we don't want the
flags.. I'll see if I can cook up something after I've finished
preparing the powerpc tree for Linus to pull.

Cheers,
Ben.


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