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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 22:22:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B072A49.B44B0F2A@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12098.990324222@ocs3.ocs-net>

Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400,
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
> >Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete
> >and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such
> >that it can be passed directly to printk like
> >
> >       printk(version);
> 
> Nit pick.  That has random side effects if version contains any '%'
> characters.  Make it
> 
>         printk("%s\n", version);
> 
> Not quite as optimal but safer.

I disagree.   Don't work around an escape bug in a version string, fix
it...

-- 
Jeff Garzik      | "Do you have to make light of everything?!"
Building 1024    | "I'm extremely serious about nailing your
MandrakeSoft     |  step-daughter, but other than that, yes."

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-20  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-19 21:41 [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-05-19 21:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-20  2:03   ` Keith Owens
2001-05-20  2:22     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-05-20 19:43       ` Alan Cox
2001-05-20 13:35     ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz

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