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

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Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:36:07 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, yhlu.kernel@...il.com,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split()

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> I hesitated, but DaveM convinced me if you get a range of IO ports such
> as 138-139, do you know on a first look that it's hex ? :-)
> 

Yes.  I mean, at least in the x86 world, we talk about "port eighty" for 
delays, which is really port 128 (0x80).

>> 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..
> 
> Shouldn't we be consistent and have resources always be printed using
> the same format ?

Yes, please.

	-hpa

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