Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] lib/vsnprintf: Add %par specifier for sake of consistency

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 16:59 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 15:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:28:07 +0200 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenk
> > o@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > While resource_size_t is repeating phys_addr_t, allocate %par
> > > specifier for
> > > that type for sake of consistency.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm struggling to see the value in this.ÂÂA more detailed changelog
> > would help, explaining why you think the kernel would benefit from
> > this.
> > 
> > Are there callsites which should be converted?ÂÂIf so, a patch which
> > does at least some of those would be helpful.
> 
> A resource_size_t isn't a different size than a phys_addr_t.
> Not so far anyway.

Yeah, I know.

> $ git grep typedef.*resource_size_t include
> include/linux/types.h:typedef phys_addr_t resource_size_t;
> 
> Is there an arch that needs a different size?
> If not, why add another case?
> Just to make the kernel larger?

Andrew, Joe, thanks for your comments. That's what I asked for in v1.

Just drop the patch. I got my answers.

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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