On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:16 -0500, Kristian H?gsberg wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Joe Perches <joe at 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.
