Re: [PATCH] APEI/ERST: Fix error message formatting

["Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 07/24/2013 10:53 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 22:43 +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
>> On 2013/07/22 11:01PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>>>
>>> [    5.525861] ERST: Can not request iomem region <0x        c7eff000-0x        c7f00000> for ERST.
>>>
>>> This needs to have leading zeroes. Make it so.
>
> Why does it need leading zeros?
>
>> While looking at this, I noticed that we seem to be using varying field
>> widths in our APEI code:
>> - einj.c has two instances using %#010llx.
>> - apei-base.c uses widths of 10 (4 bytes) and 6 (2 bytes).
>>
>> Not sure if these are intentional and those fields truly aren't 64-bit
>> (as suggested by the usage of long long int).
>
> I suggest using "0x%llx" everywhere unless there's a
> compelling reason like columnar alignment for them.

I think that might be better. I see that these changes were done in 
commit 46b91e37. Copying Bjorn Helgaas.

On 07/24/2013 11:40 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
 > That's an interesting question but I think you're better fitted to
 > answer it - I try to avoid the APEI spec as much as possible.
 >
 > :-)
 >

Oh, I've hardly scratched the surface w.r.t APEI. I think I'll let the 
experts comment on this :)


Thanks,
Naveen