Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: remove h from printk format specifier
From: Tom Rix
Date: Tue Dec 15 2020 - 14:01:44 EST
On 12/15/20 10:13 AM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting trix@xxxxxxxxxx (2020-12-15 14:41:01)
>> From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> See Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst.
>> h should no longer be used in the format specifier for printk.
> It's understood by format_decode().
> * 'h', 'l', or 'L' for integer fields
>
> At least reference commit cbacb5ab0aa0 ("docs: printk-formats: Stop
> encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]") as to why the
> printk-formats.rst was altered so we know the code is merely in bad
> taste and not using undefined behaviour of printk.
Ok, i will fix this after the first run of patches.
Tom
> -Chris
>