Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:42:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/5 v2] x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not decimal in some kernel info printks |
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Any reason we can't just re-define %p to print the 0x prefix, just as glibc > does? It'd be easy enough to go and sed out all the 0x%p's currently in the > kernel.
You didn't listen. I want #p to do the _symbolic_ address. The thing we have in the backtraces etc. With nice symbol offset information etc.
The '0x<hex>' thing isn't all that interesting. You can do it by adding the '0x' by hand, or by using a cast and using %#lx instead.
Linus
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