Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not decimalin some kernel info printks

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jun 25 2008 - 10:45:54 EST




On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Any reason we can't just re-define %p to print the 0x prefix, just as glibc
> does? It'd be easy enough to go and sed out all the 0x%p's currently in the
> kernel.

You didn't listen. I want #p to do the _symbolic_ address. The thing we
have in the backtraces etc. With nice symbol offset information etc.

The '0x<hex>' thing isn't all that interesting. You can do it by adding
the '0x' by hand, or by using a cast and using %#lx instead.

Linus
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