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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 5/9] vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string()
On Thu 2018-04-05 08:58:16, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (04/04/18 10:58), Petr Mladek wrote:
> >
> > Also it is better to warn about unknown specifier instead of falling
> > back to the %p behavior. It will help people to understand what is
> > going wrong. They expect the IP address and not a pointer anyway
> > in this situation.
> >
>
> May be. If one sees a hashed value where IP address/device name/etc
> was meant to be then it's already a sign that something is wrong.
> Those WARN_ONCE that you have added make things simpler, I agree.
> A quick question, what happens on !CONFIG_BUG systems (where we have
> no_printk() WARN)?

People with CONFIG_BUG disabled will miss much more important
warnings. IMHO, an unreported typo in printk format will be
one of their smallest problems.

Best Regards,
Petr

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