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SubjectRe: Large block device patch, part 1 of 9
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On Thursday 05 September 2002 03:31, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 02:38:58AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > The thing is, I don't see why we should be building castles and cathedrals
> > around printk. Just cast to the wider value, if you get it wrong you have
> > lost exactly what? Are people feeding the output of dmesg into scripts
> > that their systems depend upon? If so, we need to let evolution do its
> > work.
>
> Why do it the broken way when you can do it a non-broken way? Arguing in
> favour of having it broken by design isn't something I really understand.

Because you're only fixing the printk, and with an inadequate solution at
that. Could we please fix something that matters?

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Daniel
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