Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] lib/vsnprintf: Add %par specifier for sake of consistency
From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jan 11 2017 - 18:57:22 EST
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:28:07 +0200 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@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. A more detailed changelog
would help, explaining why you think the kernel would benefit from
this.
Are there callsites which should be converted? If so, a patch which
does at least some of those would be helpful.