linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] vsprintf: add %pR decoding and %pr for raw struct resource

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Message-Id: <200910131407.08290.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:07:07 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] vsprintf: add %pR decoding and %pr for raw struct resource

On Tuesday 13 October 2009 01:40:08 pm Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:22 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > This adds support for printing struct resource type and flag information.
> > For example, "%pR" looks like "[mem 0xf5df0000-0xf5df3fff 64bit pref]",
> > and "%pr" looks like "[mem 0xff5e2000-0xff5e2007 flags 0x201]".
> 
> %p[A-Za-z0-9] is a relatively limited resource.
> 
> Isn't it better to avoid using multiple characters
> for a single type?

I followed the example of F/f, S/s, M/m, etc.  I could
easily go back to %pR/%pRf or something, but I don't know
if it's worth the trouble.

Bjorn
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