linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs/afs: Remove unnecessary integer promotion in format strings

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Message-ID: <20260103090500.57460-1-kdipendra88@gmail.com>
Date: Sat,  3 Jan 2026 09:05:00 +0000
From: Dipendra Khadka <kdipendra88@...il.com>
To: david.laight.linux@...il.com
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com,
	kdipendra88@...il.com,
	linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	marc.dionne@...istor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/afs: Remove unnecessary integer promotion in format strings

>Fairly pointless churn for existing code.
>
>The message isn't really right either, 'short integers' are always
>promoted to 'int' whenever they are used.
>There is nothing special about variadic functions.

Yeah , I accept that but this patch is for consistency.
Other subsytems are migrating. There are very small 
printk statements with "%hd","%hx" and "%hu".

root@...ntu:/home/ubuntu/linux# git grep "%hd" . | wc -l
48
root@...ntu:/home/ubuntu/linux# git log --oneline 
b69053dd3ffb (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) wifi: mt76: Remove blank line after mt792x firmware version dmesg
af7809f037e6 Revert "wifi: mt76: Strip whitespace from build ddate"
9528d5c091c5 Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86
349bd28a86f2 Merge tag 'vfio-v6.19-rc4' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio

Best Regards,
Dipendra