Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Sep 2002 21:31:56 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: Large block device patch, part 1 of 9 |
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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. Anyways, I'll refrain from posting any further comments on this thread.
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