From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: oh crap... Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:31:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20081029.113142.135680097.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1225294760.5269.301.camel@localhost> <1225301082.5688.24.camel@brick> <1225304214.5269.339.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: harvey.harrison@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: joe@perches.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43441 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753111AbYJ2ScI (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:32:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1225304214.5269.339.camel@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Joe Perches 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 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"