the printk problem

Jan Engelhardt jengelh at medozas.de
Sun Jul 6 04:40:07 EST 2008


On Saturday 2008-07-05 19:56, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> >
>> > How about %p{feature}?
>
>No.
>
>I _expressly_ chose '%p[alphanumeric]*' because it's basically 
>totally insane to have that in a *real* printk() string: the end result 
>would be totally unreadable.

So, and what do you do when you run out of alphanumeric characters?



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