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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove all uses of printf's %n
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:33:16 -0700
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On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 12:24 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> There are a few problems that have been discussed on the various
> threads. Namely, we want to minimize the changes to the seq_file
> structure and to not add additional work to all the seq_file users
> that don't care about padding.

I don't think saving a couple more values to a struct
is that big a deal.