From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/2] Make functions of dev_<level> macros, recursive vsnprintf
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:36:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267911399.849.39.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003041504080.3751@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:06 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > What would I need to do to make it recur more than once? Include a %pV
> > in a string, like dev_printk("%s", %%pV")?
>
> I would argue that if somebody does that, they're just broken.
>
> The single level of recursion is really nice - it solves a real annoyance.
> But if somebody starts trying to do multiple levels, that's just crazy.
>
> Of course, I guess we don't relly have any way of sanely _counting_ the
> recursion level, so we'd have to just trust people to not do crazy things.
>
> And that's a big thing to take on trust ;)
Is that an ack, a nack or a get the hell out?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-06 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <cover.1267682641.git.joe@perches.com>
2010-03-04 6:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] vsprintf: Recursive vsnprintf: Add "%pV", struct va_format Joe Perches
2010-03-04 6:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] device.h drivers/base/core.c Convert dev_<level> macros to functions Joe Perches
2010-03-04 22:38 ` [RESEND PATCH 0/2] Make functions of dev_<level> macros, recursive vsnprintf Andrew Morton
2010-03-04 23:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-06 21:36 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2010-03-06 22:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-06 22:30 ` Joe Perches
2010-03-06 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-06 22:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-06 23:35 ` Joe Perches
2010-03-06 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-06 23:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-06 23:57 ` Joe Perches
2010-03-06 23:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-07 1:10 ` [PATCH] vsprintf.c: Reduce sizeof struct printf_spec from 24 to 8 bytes Joe Perches
2010-03-07 2:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-07 2:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-07 2:33 ` [PATCH] vsprintf.c: Use noinline_for_stack Joe Perches
2010-03-08 23:39 ` Joe Perches
2010-03-13 0:25 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-13 15:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-13 17:44 ` Joe Perches
2010-03-13 19:54 ` [PATCH] vsprintf.c: remove stack variable ksym from Joe Perches
2010-03-15 15:01 ` Paulo Marques
[not found] ` <f2b24d484347c083fa87856a75c1d96102af9005.1267682641.git.joe@perches.com>
2010-03-05 0:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] device.h drivers/base/core.c Convert dev_<level> macros to functions Andrew Morton
2010-03-05 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-05 2:46 ` Joe Perches
2010-03-04 6:27 [RESEND PATCH 0/2] Make functions of dev_<level> macros, recursive vsnprintf Joe Perches
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