Re: [PATCH] lib/vsprintf: add %pT[C012] format specifier

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is any of the "\x" (backslash + character) unused and thus available?
>
> I guess control characters would work.
>
> #define PRINTK_COMM     "\001"

Not that one, cfr. include/linux/kern_levels.h ;-)

> #define PRINTK_PID      "\002"
> #define PRINTK_TASK_ID  "\003"  /* "comm:pid" */
>
>         printk(PRINTK_TASK_ID ": hair on fire\n");
>
> It's certainly compact.  I doubt if there's any existing code which
> deliberately prints control chars?

But the rest looks OK to me.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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