From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: joe@perches.com
Cc: harvey.harrison@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oh crap...
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:31:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081029.113142.135680097.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225304214.5269.339.camel@localhost>
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:16:54 -0700
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:24 -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > Putting a modifier after the format specifier seems a little strange to me.
>
> Harvey, please remember the whole %p<foo> concept is based on
> modifier after format specifier.
I don't think there is any such strict rule, or even that we'd
want to enforce that.
There is nothing wrong with saying something like %pI6 where
the "I" signifies "internet address in 'natural' form" and
"6" is the 'modifier' which you love so much which means
"oh btw, it's ipv6"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-29 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-29 8:54 oh crap... (re: %p6) David Miller
2008-10-29 14:55 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-29 15:39 ` Joe Perches
2008-10-29 17:24 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-29 18:16 ` Joe Perches
2008-10-29 18:21 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-29 18:32 ` oh crap David Miller
2008-10-29 18:31 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-10-29 19:13 ` Joe Perches
2008-10-29 18:28 ` David Miller
2008-10-29 18:31 ` Harvey Harrison
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