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

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Date:	Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:54:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, rdreier@...co.com,
	Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, yhlu.kernel@...il.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split()



On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
> +#define MEM_RSRC_SIZE	16
> +#else
> +#define MEM_RSRC_SIZE	8
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> +#define IO_RSRC_SIZE	4
> +#elif CONFIG_PPC
> +#define IO_RSRC_SIZE	8
> +#else
> +#define IO_RSRC_SIZE	MEM_RSRC_SIZE
> +#endif

Why?

Do you think alpha wants to see its PIO resources shown as

	[00000000000001f0-00000000000001f7]

or

	[01f0-01f7]

and which do you think is more readable?

And even on sparc, with the full 64 bits in use, it's not like we'd be 
*truncating* to 4 hex digits with %04x.

		Linus
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