linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bridge: Fix format string for %ul

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Message-Id: <95BF7F27-59F7-4BDA-941B-BB00C60423A4@linuxhacker.ru>
Date:   Sat, 27 Aug 2016 11:58:00 -0400
From:   Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
To:     Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Cc:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: Fix format string for %ul


On Aug 27, 2016, at 11:13 AM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> On 8/27/2016 6:10 AM, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> 
>> %ul would print an unsigned value and a letter l,
>> likely it was %lu that was meant to print the long int,
>> but in reality the values printed there are just regular signed
> 
>   Signed? Then you need probably "%d" or "%i"…

They are signed in the struct definition, but in reality they
designate time, so could not be negative, I imagine?

> 
>> ints, so just dropping the l altogether.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
> [...]
> 
> MBR, Sergei