Re: [PATCH] bridge: Fix format string for %ul

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Tue Oct 03 2017 - 16:43:23 EST


On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 23:10:28 -0400
Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> %ul would print an unsigned value and a letter l,
> likely it was %lu that was meant to print the long int,
> but in reality the values printed there are just regular signed
> ints, so just dropping the l altogether.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
> index 5881fbc..15c4a9c 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
> @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ void br_stp_rcv(const struct stp_proto *proto, struct sk_buff *skb,
> if (net_ratelimit())
> br_notice(p->br,
> "port %u config from %pM"
> - " (message_age %ul > max_age %ul)\n",
> + " (message_age %u > max_age %u)\n",
> p->port_no,
> eth_hdr(skb)->h_source,
> bpdu.message_age, bpdu.max_age);

Could you make the format string a single line plwase.
And add Fixes tag.