Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] vsprintf: add %pR decoding and %pr for raw struct resource

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue Oct 13 2009 - 16:08:40 EST


On Tuesday 13 October 2009 01:40:08 pm Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:22 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > This adds support for printing struct resource type and flag information.
> > For example, "%pR" looks like "[mem 0xf5df0000-0xf5df3fff 64bit pref]",
> > and "%pr" looks like "[mem 0xff5e2000-0xff5e2007 flags 0x201]".
>
> %p[A-Za-z0-9] is a relatively limited resource.
>
> Isn't it better to avoid using multiple characters
> for a single type?

I followed the example of F/f, S/s, M/m, etc. I could
easily go back to %pR/%pRf or something, but I don't know
if it's worth the trouble.

Bjorn
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