Re: [RFC][PATCH] printk: Add %pb to print bitmaps

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 10:15 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> The "bc" and "bn" would work, except for the fact that I doubt they
> are printed out enough to matter.

There's a number %pbc candidates in the scheduler that would be nice to
not have to do manually.

> A "%.*pb" is the only interface that can work for a "sized" bitmap
> (with obviously fixed-length ones being possible with a "%.32bp" like
> thing)

Right, sadly that also generates a warning :/

> But the whole va_args games you play are not acceptable. %p *will*
> continue to take a void *, and nothing else. 

The va_args() games are dead.
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