Messages in this thread | | | From | Rasmus Villemoes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid_sas: Prevent future %p disaster | Date | Tue, 12 May 2015 16:04:04 +0200 |
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On Tue, Feb 10 2015, Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@avagotech.com> wrote:
> Acked-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@avagotech.com> > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rasmus Villemoes [mailto:linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk] >> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 8:04 PM >> To: Kashyap Desai; Sumit Saxena; Uday Lingala; James E.J. Bottomley >> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes; megaraidlinux.pdl@avagotech.com; linux- >> scsi@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid_sas: Prevent future %p disaster >> >> There is currently no %po format extension, so currently the letters > "on" are >> simply skipped and the pointer is printed as expected (while missing the > word >> on). However, it is probably only a matter of time before someone comes > up >> with a %po extension, at which point this is likely to fail > spectacularly. >> >> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Any chance either this minimal fix or Joe's more thorough cleanup could get applied? There's still no %po extension, but there's certainly a lot of proposals for more %p extensions flying around LKML, so I still think the "only a matter of time" holds.
Rasmus
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