From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:54:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] - prof_cpu_mask problems Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Matthew wrote (on the linux-ia64 list): >> Why u16 rather than u32? On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:45:30PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote: > You'd probably have to ask whomever wrote that part in the first place. > I'd guess Jack was using u16 because it was already there. > My take - we should: > 1) change the loop to u32, > 2) add a separator character, say comma ',', between u32 words, and > 3) drop the zero %04x fill. It was to silence a warning. You'll have write your own to replace the fix now in -mm if this is what you really want. -- wli