Re: [PATCH] lib/vsprintf: add %pT[C012] format specifier

[Joe Perches]

On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 20:25 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Is any of the "\x" (backslash + character) unused and thus available?
> >
> > I guess control characters would work.
> >
> > #define PRINTK_COMM     "\001"
> 
> Not that one, cfr. include/linux/kern_levels.h ;-)

yup.

> > #define PRINTK_PID      "\002"
> > #define PRINTK_TASK_ID  "\003"  /* "comm:pid" */
> >
> >         printk(PRINTK_TASK_ID ": hair on fire\n");
> >
> > It's certainly compact.  I doubt if there's any existing code which
> > deliberately prints control chars?
> 
> But the rest looks OK to me.

Tell me again, what's wrong with using p or current?

printk("%pt", current);


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