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.