Re: [PATCH] proc: remove superfluous debug output

[Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 16:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > -	pr_debug("proc: options = %s\n", options);
> > -
> >  	if (!options)
> >  		return 1;
> 
> So it turns out that this patch is a fix against the pending
> procfs-add-hidepid=-and-gid=-mount-options.patch.  Please tell people
> this sort of thing to prevent confusion.

Oops, sorry.  Will do this next time.


> Also, I have a note here that Alexey has issues with
> procfs-add-hidepid=-and-gid=-mount-options.patch (it is reproduced
> below) - he suggests that it is using incorrect types.  Where do we
> stand with that?

This is not a bug, surely.  IMHO, it's better to have it as the longest
possible format for the future changes.  It's wearily to find such %d
for pid_t instances all over the kernel if we change pid_t from int to
long.

The same question, btw:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1270730.html

Probably it's better to add official point about this issue into
Documentation/ ?


Thanks,

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