Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/2] Make functions of dev_<level> macros, recursivevsnprintf

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Mar 06 2010 - 18:58:41 EST




On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > width: 5 (make it 6 bits and signed)
> > precision: 5 (make it 6 bits, and signed)
>
> Oh, actually, no, we do that whole left-justification with the flags, we
> don't need that signed stuff. We do need one special value for the "no
> width, no precision", though.

Btw, yeah, we do have a couple of "%.100s" etc, but we could fix those if
we really wanted to do this.

And no, I guess we don't really need to make it 32-bit. Fitting in 64 bits
would already be a big improvement over what we have now.

Linus
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