Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] PCI: Include human-readable sizes in resource assignment messages

[Petr Mladek]

On Sat 2026-08-08 20:48:00, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2026 at 12:23:08PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > Include human-readable sizes, e.g., "16.0 MiB", in addition to the hex
> > "0x1000000" size, in resource-related messages.  Also consistently include
> > the "0x" prefix.
> 
> Instead of repeating many times the %#llx (%s) and accompanying
> string_get_size() calls can we rather introduce a (sub-)extension
> to %p[R] (perhaps against 'R' to print only size) and use it?

I am not sure if I understand it correctly. It looks to me that
this patch uses string_get_size() for printing some "arbitrary" size
values. Some are not part of struct resources, so using %pRR
might be confusing.

Unfortunately, implementing a generic printf modifier for printing
human readable size is complicated. It should keep the type-size
checks. Also it should allow to distinguish binary vs decimal
size calculation, for example 1kB vs 1kHz for 1024B vs 1000Hz.
See https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZbFd5TZ_pi7q3hso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Best Regards,
Petr