Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, printk: introduce new format string for flags

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 12/03/2015 07:38 PM, yalin wang wrote:
> thatâs all, see cpumask_pr_args(masks) macro,
> it also use macro and  %*pb  to print cpu mask .
> i think this method is not very complex to use .

Well, one also has to write the appropriate translation tables.

> search source code ,
> there is lots of printk to print flag into hex number :
> $ grep -n  -r 'printk.*flag.*%xâ  .
> it will be great if this flag string print is generic.

I think it can always be done later, this is an internal API. For now we 
just have 3 quite generic flags, so let's not over-engineer things right 
now.

> Thanks

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