Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/9] drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c: Use printf extension %pV | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:31:03 -0800 |
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On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:16 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > Using %pV reduces the number of printk calls and > > eliminates any possible message interleaving from > > other printk calls.
> Wouldn't it be easier and more convenient to just make the %pV format > specifier just expect a format string and the va_arg list? Like this > printk(KERN_DEBUG "%pV", format, &args); > I mean, the %pV is kernel specific and we can just change how it works.
No it wouldn't.
gcc would now warn about a mismatch between format and arguments.
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