From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934698AbdAKX5M (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:57:12 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:39978 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932692AbdAKX5L (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:57:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:57:10 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk, arnd.bergmann@linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] lib/vsnprintf: Add %par specifier for sake of consistency Message-Id: <20170111155710.77c58352c40af6daef1f262b@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20170111162807.45736-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> References: <20170111162807.45736-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-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 On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:28:07 +0200 Andy Shevchenko wrote: > While resource_size_t is repeating phys_addr_t, allocate %par specifier for > that type for sake of consistency. > I'm struggling to see the value in this. A more detailed changelog would help, explaining why you think the kernel would benefit from this. Are there callsites which should be converted? If so, a patch which does at least some of those would be helpful.