Re: reduce cpumask digit grouping from 8 to 4

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

Joe proposed changing mask displays from 8 to 4 chars:
-	u32 *wordp = (u32 *)maskp;
-	int i = maskbytes/sizeof(u32) - 1;
+	u16 *wordp = (u16 *)maskp;
+	int i = maskbytes/sizeof(u16) - 1;


Please don't apply this proposed patch as it stands.

It changes the output, without touching the input side (where the kernel
parses ascii masks from userland).  The in and out formats should be the
same.  See the other u32 appearances in this same file, mask.c, for the
other places that would need to be changed.

And I'd like to see a bit of a consensus for such a format change,
especially, in this case, from developers of systems with NR_CPUS in the
range of 17 to 32, who would go from a single ascii hex word to a
comma-separated double word with this change.  My hunch is that they
would prefer not to make this proposed format change.

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