Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/2] Make functions of dev_<level> macros, recursivevsnprintf

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I'm not convinced. We pass that 'printf_spec' around a lot, including 
> nesting. Not as a pointer, either.

Btw, I wonder if those fields could become bitfields, or 'unsigned char' 
etc. That printf_spec really is unnecessarily big. It should _easily_ fit 
in a single register on a 64-bit platform, possibly even a 32-bit one (we 
could limit field width and precision to 5 bits, for example)

			Linus
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