From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:4939 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757166Ab0KJXBZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:01:25 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] treewide: convert vprintk uses to %pV From: Joe Perches To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:01:23 -0800 Message-ID: <1289430083.15905.106.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 14:48 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > When was this added upstream BTW? I ask for backport considerations. commit 7db6f5fb65a82af03229eef104dc9899c5eecf33 Author: Joe Perches Date: Sun Jun 27 01:02:33 2010 +0000 vsprintf: Recursive vsnprintf: Add "%pV", struct va_format Add the ability to print a format and va_list from a structure pointer Allows __dev_printk to be implemented as a single printk while minimizing string space duplication. %pV should not be used without some mechanism to verify the format and argument use ala __attribute__(format (printf(...))). Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller