From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] printk and dma_addr_t
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 01:38:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C6A342C.E2123369@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16avu8-0004lh-00@the-village.bc.nu> <3C6A331A.2D793119@mandrakesoft.com>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > dma_addr_t type. So the above usage will become
> > >
> > > printk("stuff: " DMA_ADDR_T_FMT " %s", a, s);
> >
> > Vomit. How about adding a dma_addr_t %code to the printk function ?
>
> heh, my comment on the patch was, "about as good as you can do without
> teaching printk and gcc about the type"
we could do:
char *format_dma_addr_t(char *buf, dma_addr_t a);
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-13 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-13 9:20 [patch] printk and dma_addr_t Andrew Morton
2002-02-13 9:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-13 9:33 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-13 9:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-13 9:38 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-02-13 9:35 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-13 10:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-13 10:26 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-15 21:37 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2002-02-15 21:51 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-13 11:36 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-13 17:38 ` Richard Gooch
[not found] <0C01A29FBAE24448A792F5C68F5EA47D2172BC@nasdaq.ms.ensim.com>
2002-02-13 19:11 ` Paul Menage
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