Re: [PATCH] Use hex numbers in fs/block_dev.c

[Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2003 17:37 schrieb Jörn Engel:
> On Wed, 26 February 2003 17:19:15 +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > We're using hex numbers to identify devices in most places. We should use
> > them in filesystem messages, errors etc. too, this would be much more
> > consistent and avoids things like this where two different naming styles
> > for the same error are used:
> >
> >      end_request: [...] dev 16:45 (hdd), sector 9175248
> >      EXT3-fs error (device ide1(22,69)): [...] inode=575269,
> > block=1146906
> >
> > With this patch the second message would look like this:
> >
> >      EXT3-fs error (device ide1(16:45)): [...] inode=575269,
> > block=1146906
>
> Whis is _horrible_. Am I supposed to guess that ide does not use major
> 16, so it will be 0x16 == 22 instead?

Of course, I know. But then we have to fix the end_request stuff also. And 
root=831 command line etc. This _is_ ugly. I just tried to make it one kind 
of ugly at all.

Eike