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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] vsprintf: add %pR decoding and %pr for raw
 struct resource
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:40:08 -0700
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On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:22 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> This adds support for printing struct resource type and flag information.
> For example, "%pR" looks like "[mem 0xf5df0000-0xf5df3fff 64bit pref]",
> and "%pr" looks like "[mem 0xff5e2000-0xff5e2007 flags 0x201]".

%p[A-Za-z0-9] is a relatively limited resource.

Isn't it better to avoid using multiple characters
for a single type?