Re: [patch 1/1] dm: fix printk warnings about whether %lu/%Lu isright for sector_t

[Andrew Morton]

Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:12:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > I would prefer that SECTOR_FORMAT be removed altogether.
>   
>  > The industry-standard way of printing a sector_t is:
>  > 	printk("%llu", (unsigned long long)sector);
>   
>  What about reading a sector_t with sscanf, which looks like the
>  reason for the existence of SECTOR_FORMAT?

I'm not sure that it has arisen.  I'd do:

	unsigned long long temp;
	sector_t sector;

	sscanf(buf, "%llu", &temp);
	sector = temp;

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