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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>,
	Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
	Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@skynet.be>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>,
	xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] lib/vsprintf.c: Add %pU to print UUID/GUIDs
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:26:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1254382000.1799.13.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10f740e80910010010o4522a008h265e09d7988d7192@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 09:10 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Standardize the printed style of UUID/GUIDs by using
> > another extension to %p.
> >
> > %pU:    01020304-0506-0708-090a-0b0c0d0e0f10
> > %pUr:   04030201-0605-0807-090a-0b0c0d0e0f10
> > %pU[r]X:Use upper case hex
> 
> To me, it looks a bit strange to have the options after the `U', combined with
> the variable-length nature.

I think the whole %p<foo> mechanism is strange and takes
a bit of getting used to.

You're free to suggest alternatives.

Keep in mind expansion for future different types and that
<foo> must be alphanumeric chars only.

cheers, Joe


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-01  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-29  5:01 [PATCH 0/9] Add vsprintf extension %pU to print UUID/GUIDs and use it Joe Perches
2009-09-29  5:01 ` [PATCH 1/9] lib/vsprintf.c: Add %pU to print UUID/GUIDs Joe Perches
2009-10-01  7:10   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-10-01  7:26     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2009-10-01  8:55       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-10-07  0:07         ` Joe Perches
2009-09-29  5:01 ` [PATCH 2/9] efi.h: Use %pUr to print UUIDs Joe Perches
2009-09-29  5:01 ` [PATCH 3/9] random.c: Use %pU " Joe Perches
2009-09-29  5:01 ` [PATCH 4/9] drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: Use %pUX " Joe Perches
2009-09-29  5:01 ` [PATCH 5/9] drivers/md/md.c: Use %pU " Joe Perches
2009-09-29  5:01 ` [PATCH 6/9] drivers/media/video/uvc: Use %pUr " Joe Perches
2009-10-01  0:20   ` Laurent Pinchart
2009-10-01  0:24     ` Joe Perches
2009-09-29  5:01 ` [PATCH 7/9] fs/gfs2/sys.c: Use %pUX " Joe Perches
2009-09-29  8:50   ` Steven Whitehouse
2009-09-29  5:01 ` [PATCH 8/9] fs/ubifs: " Joe Perches
2009-09-29 12:32   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-09-29  5:01 ` [PATCH 9/9] fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c: Use %pU " Joe Perches
2009-09-29  5:57 ` [PATCH 0/9] Add vsprintf extension %pU to print UUID/GUIDs and use it Huang Ying
2009-10-01  0:07   ` Laurent Pinchart
2009-10-01  0:20     ` Joe Perches
2009-10-10  5:50     ` Huang Ying

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