From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Dwayne Grant McConnell <decimal@us.ibm.com>,
cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Correct way to format spufs file output.
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:44:53 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161395093.10524.225.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610201638.52404.arnd@arndb.de>
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 16:38 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 20 October 2006 15:54, Dwayne Grant McConnell wrote:
> > I think %0xllx is the way to go. I would even advocate changing
> > signal1_type and signal2_type unless it is actually too dangerous.
>
> There is absolutely no reason why these should be hexadecimal, they
> are basically implementing a bool.
>
> > Is there even a case where changing from %llu to %0xllx would break things?
> > Perhaps with the combination of a old library with a new kernel?
>
> Right, a library or some script that has been written assuming there
> is no leading 0x.
We might still want to "broadcast" that we might change that and see how
much gets broken. It's very likely that nothing will.
Ben.
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2006-10-20 8:23 ` Correct way to format spufs file output Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-20 13:54 ` Dwayne Grant McConnell
2006-10-20 14:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-20 14:42 ` Dwayne Grant McConnell
2006-10-21 1:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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