linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/23] lmb: Print new doubled array location info

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Message-ID: <4C36300A.7030606@kernel.org>
Date:	Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:07:38 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/23] lmb: Print new doubled array location info

On 07/08/2010 11:55 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Sunday, July 04, 2010 12:56:07 am Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> -		pr_info(" %s[0x%x]\t0x%016llx - 0x%016llx, 0x%llx bytes\n",
>> -		    name, i, base, base + size - 1, size);
>> +		pr_info(" %s[%#x]\t[%#016llx - %#016llx], %#llx bytes\n",
>> +		    name, i, base, base + size, size);
> 
> I know you think it's prettier to have zeroes and extra spaces like this:
> 
>   [0xe7000000 - 0xe8000000, 0x1000000 bytes]
> 
> rather than a bunch of 'F's:
> 
>   [0xe7000000-0xe7ffffff]
> 
> But for the record, I still think you're wrong and that it's better
> to be consistent even if it's slightly uglier.  The inconsistencies
> lead to confusion and off-by-one errors.

We can make them to be consistent later.

current for early mem stage, it is consistent to without -1.

later I like to see all pci resource could be consistent to without -1 too.

Thanks

Yinghai
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