Re: the printk problem [LWN.net]

From:		Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org>
To:		Jan Engelhardt <jengelh-AT-medozas.de>
Subject:		Re: the printk problem
Date:		Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:44:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:		<alpine.LFD.1.10.0807051142050.2815@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Cc:		Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum-AT-gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew-AT-wil.cx>, Peter Anvin <hpa-AT-zytor.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem-AT-davemloft.net>, linux-ia64-AT-vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev-AT-ozlabs.org, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> So, and what do you do when you run out of alphanumeric characters?

Did you actually look at my patch?

It's not a single alnum character. It's an arbitrary sequence of alnum 
characters. IOW, my patch allows

	%p6N

or something like that for showing a ipv6 "NIP" format string etc. Or you 
could spell them out even more, although I consider it unlikely that you 
really want to see too many of these, since gcc won't actually be able to 
type-check them (so they will always remain _secondary_ formats).

			Linus
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