Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split()

[Yinghai Lu]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:04 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>
>> That debug outpout in kernel/resource.c is busted on 32-bit
>> machines, fix it with appropriate casts.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> One day Yinghai will figure out that resource_size_t can be 32-bit
>> and thus as printk arguments must be cast to (unsigned long long)
>> explicitely when using %llx... hopefully, that day, Ingo will also
>> catch these before committing them as it's not the first one like
>> this :-)

we had patch to remove that two debug lines.

>>
>
> I really think Linus' solution (add a resource printf modifier, that can
> contain the whole format) is much better.

yes. some pci resource print out etc could use that too.
to get rid of the annoying casting.

BTW: can you just enforce resource_t to u64?

YH
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