From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] lib/vsprintf.c: Add %pU - ptr to a UUID/GUID Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:00:46 -0700 Message-ID: <1254078046.28232.183.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> References: <1507728e0ea3deafa71c481d508a6e9765c92221.1254030722.git.joe@perches.com> <200909271245.34000.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH To: Ingo Oeser Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200909271245.34000.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 12:45 +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: > Hi Joe, Hello Ingo. > On Sunday 27 September 2009, Joe Perches wrote: > > UUID/GUIDs are somewhat common in kernel source. > > Standardize the printed style of UUID/GUIDs by using > > another extension to %p. > > %pU: 01020304:0506:0708:090a:0b0c0d0e0f10 > > %pUr: 04030201:0605:0807:0a09:0b0c0d0e0f10 > Code does "01020304-0506-0708-090a-0b0c0d0e0f10". > This is not, what commit promises. Please change the commit message! True enough, that can change, no worries. Does anyone have comments like: 1 what a stupid idea 2 how unnecessary 3 meh 4 bloat alert! linux is supposed to be lean 5 ok idea, bad implementation 6 sure, why not