Re: [PATCH] vsprintf: Remove SPECIAL from pointer types

2014-07-07 Thread Joe Perches
On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 08:26 +, David Laight wrote: > From: Joe Perches > > Because gcc issues a complaint about any pointer format with %#p, > > remove the use of SPECIAL to prefix 0x to various pointer types. > > > > There are no uses in the kernel tree of %#p. > > I know you guys don't real

RE: [PATCH] vsprintf: Remove SPECIAL from pointer types

2014-07-07 Thread David Laight
From: Joe Perches > Because gcc issues a complaint about any pointer format with %#p, > remove the use of SPECIAL to prefix 0x to various pointer types. > > There are no uses in the kernel tree of %#p. I know you guys don't really care about them, but there might be uses in out of tree drivers.

Re: [PATCH] vsprintf: Remove SPECIAL from pointer types

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Perches
On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 12:44 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jul 2014, Joe Perches wrote: > > > Because gcc issues a complaint about any pointer format with %#p, > > remove the use of SPECIAL to prefix 0x to various pointer types. [] > Conceptually good, thanks for your effort, but you

Re: [PATCH] vsprintf: Remove SPECIAL from pointer types

2014-07-06 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Sat, 5 Jul 2014, Joe Perches wrote: > Because gcc issues a complaint about any pointer format with %#p, > remove the use of SPECIAL to prefix 0x to various pointer types. > > There are no uses in the kernel tree of %#p. > > This removes the capability added by commit 725fe002d315 > ("vsprintf

[PATCH] vsprintf: Remove SPECIAL from pointer types

2014-07-05 Thread Joe Perches
Because gcc issues a complaint about any pointer format with %#p, remove the use of SPECIAL to prefix 0x to various pointer types. There are no uses in the kernel tree of %#p. This removes the capability added by commit 725fe002d315 ("vsprintf: correctly handle width when '#' flag used in %#p for