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

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Message-Id: <20081016.210404.151891223.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:04:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, 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()

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:49:00 -0700 (PDT)

> But it would be kind of nice to be able to do extended flags. Maybe we 
> could do it with
> 
> 	%p04R
> 
> and the 04 would be parsed as flags, the same way we do %04x. And then if 
> you want the 0x, you can use %p#08R..

These modifiers are interesting, but wouldn't it be even nicer to just
pick one output style and use it consistently in kernel messages for
resources?
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