The commit cbacb5ab0aa0 ("docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of
unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]") obviously missed the point of sign
promotion for the signed values lesser than int. In such case %x prints
not the same as %h[h]x. Restore back those specifiers for the signed hex
cases.
Fixes: cbacb5ab0aa0 ("docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]")
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
index dfe7e75a71de..2f3a6e0b3fc4 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ Integer types
If variable is of Type, use printk format specifier:
------------------------------------------------------------
- char %d or %x
+ char %d or %hhx
unsigned char %u or %x
- short int %d or %x
+ short int %d or %hx
unsigned short int %u or %x
int %d or %x
unsigned int %u or %x
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ Integer types
unsigned long long %llu or %llx
size_t %zu or %zx
ssize_t %zd or %zx
- s8 %d or %x
+ s8 %d or %hhx
u8 %u or %x
- s16 %d or %x
+ s16 %d or %hx
u16 %u or %x
s32 %d or %x
u32 %u or %x
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