From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760774AbYFPIJo (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:09:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760083AbYFPIJZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:09:25 -0400 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:48606 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753949AbYFPIJX (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:09:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:09:21 -0500 From: Paul Jackson To: "Yinghai Lu" Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, steiner@sgi.com, travis@sgi.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ying.huang@intel.com, andi@firstfloor.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not decimal in some kernel info printks Message-Id: <20080616030921.18dd44d2.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <86802c440806160005q151ee44drac956dc0a3048643@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080616062945.14597.78009.sendpatchset@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <20080616063016.14597.78459.sendpatchset@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <86802c440806160005q151ee44drac956dc0a3048643@mail.gmail.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yinghai wrote: > wonder if we need 0x? It is not essential, but it seems like a good idea, to make it clear to the reader that it is hex output, not decimal. Especially since this patch changes this from decimal to hex, we cannot count on some never changing standard to help users disambiguate output. Hex numbers that don't have A-F letters could be decimal numbers -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.940.382.4214