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

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Date:	Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:03:33 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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()


> 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.

I said archs could add themselves to the list who wants smaller
resources. I don't know which arch wants what here, I just provided
some defaults. Maybe we could move those define to asm/*.h tho.

Cheers,
Ben.


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