Re: [PATCH 8/9] x86: ramdisk info print with high bits.

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:39 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/16/2012 11:21 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> NAK, this is expected to match the resource print format (%pR), which
>>> prints 10 digits by default and then expands.  Furthermore, printing
>>> *18* digits is downright silly since we still don't have 72-bit addressing.
>>
>> that is the same as in e820_print_map::
>>
>>                 printk(KERN_INFO "%s: [mem %#018Lx-%#018Lx] ", who,
>>                        (unsigned long long) e820.map[i].addr,
>>                        (unsigned long long)
>>                        (e820.map[i].addr + e820.map[i].size - 1));
>>
>>
>> that is for 64bit address.
>> that extra 2 is for "0x"
>>
>
> Oh, right.  It's the use of %#... I usually use 0x%... so I didn't think
> of it.
>
>> or you prefer to cast them to pointer and use %pR for them all?
>>
>> or fix printk to add extra 2 for "0x" when # is found?
>
> We should normally use %pR or the equivalent format.  The only reason we
> do it different for e820_print_map is because it prints a whole bunch of
> lines in which we want the columns to line up.

so we just use #llx or #Lx instead in this patch?
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