linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cxl: Remove useless precision specifiers

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Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:40:08 +1100
From:	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
To:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxl: Remove useless precision specifiers

Excerpts from Rasmus Villemoes's message of 2015-02-21 00:26:22 +1100:
> C99 says that a precision given as simply '.' with no following digits
> or * should be interpreted as 0. The kernel's printf implementation,
> however, treats this case as if the precision was omitted. C99 also
> says that if both the precision and value are 0, no digits should be
> printed. Even if the kernel followed C99 to the letter, I don't think
> that would be particularly useful in these cases, so just remove the
> precision specifiers.

Nice catch Rasmus, but I think a better patch would be one that adds the
missing precision (%.16llx).

Cheers,
-Ian

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