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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: split e820 reserved entries record to late v4 - fix v7
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:54:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F3C380.2020603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810131431510.3288@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Or we could do what Andrew suggested some time ago, and extend %p to do 
> resource printing, like %pS and %pF.
> 
> TOTALLY UNTESTED! But something like this might allow
> 
> 	printk(KERN_DEBUG "  reserve_region: (%s) %pR\n"
> 		res->name, res);
> 
> and if I did things right it should print
> 
> 	reserve_region: (name) [xx-xx]
> 
> and maybe it's worth it. We certainly do seem to have a fair number of 
> those irritating casts for resource printouts.
> 

There is certainly a lot to be said for this.  Using higher-level 
interfaces keeps formatting consistent and gives us one place to change 
things if desired.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-13 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-01  7:31 [PATCH] x86: split e820 reserved entries record to late v4 - fix v7 Yinghai Lu
2008-09-04 19:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-04 19:16   ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-04 19:22     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-13 20:32       ` Tony Luck
2008-10-13 21:14         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-13 21:17           ` Luck, Tony
2008-10-13 21:46           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-13 21:54             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-10-13 22:40             ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-13 22:48               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-14  5:29         ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-05  8:52   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-05 11:45     ` Ingo Molnar

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