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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string
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Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:17:47PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:40:19PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:20:43 -0700
>>> Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Define SECTOR_FMT to print sector_t in proper format
>>> We've thus-far avoided doing this. In fact a similar construct in
>>> device-mapper was recently removed.
>> Yeah, OCFS2 had similar formats, and we were asked to change
>> them to naked casts before inclusion. Seems quite consistent with the
>> rest of the kernel.
>
> Will
>
> printk("%S", sector_t);
>
> kill at least one kitten?

I like the general idea. I think that having to cast every time you want
to print a sector number is pretty gross. I had something more like %Su
in mind, though.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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