From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large block device patch, part 1 of 9
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 21:31:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020904213156.A6367@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17mkfj-000627-00@starship>; from phillips@arcor.de on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 02:38:58AM +0200
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.
-ben
--
"You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."
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[not found] ` <15734.37217.686498.162782@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
2002-09-05 0:04 ` Large block device patch, part 1 of 9 Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-05 0:38 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 1:31 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-09-05 4:05 ` Daniel Phillips
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[not found] ` <fa.j8nq6dv.14lihor@ifi.uio.no>
2002-12-03 8:45 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-12-03 17:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-12-03 17:48 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
[not found] <15732.34929.657481.777572@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209030900410.1997-100000@home.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-09-03 16:23 ` Andi Kleen
2002-09-03 8:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-03 16:43 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-09-03 8:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-03 0:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-12-05 10:58 ` Pavel Machek
2002-12-05 21:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-23 5:47 Peter Chubb
2002-08-23 7:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-27 15:23 ` Pavel Machek
2002-08-27 22:58 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-08-27 23:40 ` Peter Chubb
2002-09-03 10:01 ` Neil Brown
2002-09-03 16:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-03 16:21 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-03 23:06 ` Neil Brown
2002-12-03 0:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-03 19:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 19:50 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-03 20:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 20:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-03 20:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 20:25 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 20:05 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-03 20:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-12-03 0:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
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