Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209030113420.12861-100000@kiwi.transmeta.com>
By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The printk warnings should be easy to fix once everybody uses the same
> types - I think we right now have workarounds exactly for 64-bit machines
> where w check BITS_PER_LONG and use different formats for them (exactly
> because they historically have _not_ had the same types as the 32-bit
> machines).
>
> However, if anybody on the list is hacking gcc, the best option really
> would be to just allow better control over gcc printf formats. I have
> wanted that in user space too at times. And it doesn't matter if it only
> happens in new versions of gcc - we can disable the warning altogether for
> old gcc's, as long as enough people have the new gcc to catch new
> offenders..
>
> (I'd _love_ to be able to add printk modifiers for other common types in
> the kernel, like doing the NIPQUAD thing etc inside printk() instead of
> having it pollute the callers. All of which has been avoided because of
> the hardcoded gcc format warning..)
>
While we're talking about printk()... is there any reason *not* to
rename it printf()?
-hpa
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