Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Apr 2021 13:24:33 +0200 | From | Petr Mladek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] printk: clarify the documentation for plain pointer printing |
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On Thu 2021-02-25 17:46:39, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > We have several modifiers for plain pointers (%p, %px and %pK) and now also > the no_hash_pointers boot parameter. The documentation should help to choose > which variant to use. Importantly, we should discourage %px in favour of %p > (with the new boot parameter when debugging), and stress that %pK should be > only used for procfs and similar files, not dmesg buffer. This patch clarifies > the documentation in that regard. > > Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
The patch has been committed into printk/linux.git, branch for-5.13.
Best Regards, Petr
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