linux-kernel - [PATCH] docs: add extra integer types to printk-formats

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Date:   Sun,  3 Mar 2019 12:36:47 +0000
From:   Louis Taylor <louis@...gniz.eu>
To:     corbet@....net
Cc:     pmladek@...e.com, geert+renesas@...der.be,
        andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        ndesaulniers@...gle.com, jflat@...omium.org,
        Louis Taylor <louis@...gniz.eu>
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add extra integer types to printk-formats

A few commonly used integer types were absent from this table, so add
them.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/378
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Louis Taylor <louis@...gniz.eu>
---
 Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
index a7fae4538946..6f08b1b6240a 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
@@ -19,8 +19,16 @@ Integer types
 		unsigned long		%lu or %lx
 		long long		%lld or %llx
 		unsigned long long	%llu or %llx
+		short int		%hd or %hx
+		unsigned short int	%hu or %hx
+		char			%hhd or %hhx
+		unsigned char		%hhu or %hhx
 		size_t			%zu or %zx
 		ssize_t			%zd or %zx
+		s8			%hhd or %hhx
+		u8			%hhu or %hhx
+		s16			%hd or %hx
+		u16			%hu or %hx
 		s32			%d or %x
 		u32			%u or %x
 		s64			%lld or %llx
-- 
2.20.1