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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Dwayne Grant McConnell <decimal@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Correct way to format spufs file output.
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:38:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610201638.52404.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.64.0610200848580.5976@dwayne>

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.

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.WNT.4.64.0610182227120.6056@doodlebug>
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 [this message]
2006-10-20 14:42       ` Dwayne Grant McConnell
2006-10-21  1:44       ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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