On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:25 -0500, Dieter Kedrowitsch wrote: > Hans, thanks for the reply. <snip> > If anyone who is still following the list has the time and ability to > help me out, please feel free to chime in! > > Thanks! In elks/kernel/printk.c is the following code for parsing a format string (line 139, right after detecting a '%'): width = zero = '0'; if (c == '0') zero++; while (c >= '0' && c <= '9') { width *= 10; width += c - '0'; c = *fmt++; } Notice the width is being set to the value of an ASCII '0' character. I think it should have been set to the integer value 0 (zero) instead. It looks like, by default, all fields will have a width of whatever the ASCII code for '0' (48?). Phil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html