Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:21:08 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split() | | From | David Miller <> | |
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:18:08 -0700 (PDT)
> I dunno. I'd certainly be perfectly happy with having the flags and
> field_width be specified by the resource flags. eg
>
> flags = ZEROPAD | SMALL;
> fieldwidth = (res->flags & IORESOURCE_IO) ? 4 : 8;
>
> or something like that. But would it be acceptable to everybody?
I personally appreciate seeing the full 64-bit address on sparc64,
even for IORESOURCE_IO, and that's helped me debug resource
calculation bugs on more than one occasion in the past.
But that's just me :)
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