From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: resource_size_t printk woes...
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:32:16 +0100
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To: John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
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John David Anglin wrote:
> Hi Helge,
> 
> I just want to say that I like Kyle's approach.  There already exists
> the 'R' modifier for %p.  This outputs a pair of resource_size_t values.
> We just need a modifier to handle the printing of the start value in
> a manner similar to that for the 'R' modifier.  So, I think this issue
> needs another go around.

Sadly none of the approaches is really nice, as with Kyle's approach we'd
loose the type-checking of printk.
But yes, maybe that's the best choice of all bad ones.
Will you try/come up with a patch to vsprintf.c?

Helge