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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 5/9] vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string()
On (04/04/18 10:58), Petr Mladek wrote:
>
> Also it is better to warn about unknown specifier instead of falling
> back to the %p behavior. It will help people to understand what is
> going wrong. They expect the IP address and not a pointer anyway
> in this situation.
>

May be. If one sees a hashed value where IP address/device name/etc
was meant to be then it's already a sign that something is wrong.
Those WARN_ONCE that you have added make things simpler, I agree.
A quick question, what happens on !CONFIG_BUG systems (where we have
no_printk() WARN)?

-ss

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