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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik)
Cc: kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens),
	ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz),
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (kernel list)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 20:43:39 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E151Z75-0002mo-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B072A49.B44B0F2A@mandrakesoft.com> from "Jeff Garzik" at May 19, 2001 10:22:01 PM

> >         printk("%s\n", version);
> > 
> > Not quite as optimal but safer.
> 
> I disagree.   Don't work around an escape bug in a version string, fix
> it...

A % in a version string might be quite reasonable. You are asking to have
an accident by avoiding it. If you want to fight over 4 bytes, then add
a single constant "%s\n", and #define putk() from it



  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-20 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-19 21:41 Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-05-19 21:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-20  2:03   ` Keith Owens
2001-05-20  2:22     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-20 19:43       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-05-20 13:35     ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz

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