On 12/06/2017 01:16 PM, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 10:18:49AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
> Thanks for your comments Randy.
>
>>> Documentation/index.rst | 10 +
>>> .../{printk-formats.txt => printk-formats.rst} | 295 ++++++++++++---------
>>> lib/vsprintf.c | 160 +++++------
>>> 3 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 230 deletions(-)
>>> rename Documentation/{printk-formats.txt => printk-formats.rst} (61%)
>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt b/Documentation/printk-formats.rst
>>> similarity index 61%
>>> rename from Documentation/printk-formats.txt
>>> rename to Documentation/printk-formats.rst
>>> index aa0a776c817a..51449d213748 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/printk-formats.rst
>>> @@ -194,8 +233,8 @@ printing SSIDs.
>>>
>>> If field width is omitted the 1 byte only will be escaped.
>>
>> then
>> I think...
>
> Ha ha, I was borderline with this change when doing this patch. It may
> not appear so but I did try to do the minimal amount of changes while
> improving correctness. I appreciate your comments since hopefully I can
> better make these judgment calls next time.
I wasn't so sure about that attempt (at minimal changes). :)
> Will change as suggested.
>>> Where no additional specifiers are used the default big endian
>>> -order with lower case hex characters will be printed.
>>> +order with lower case hex digits will be printed.
>>
>> digits could imply base 10. but no big deal.
>
> Are you sure about this? I was under the impression that when
> representing a number the character set used are refereed to as 'digits'
> irrespective of base.
>
> hexadecimal digit
> octal digit
> digit (assumed base 10)
>
> Open to correction though.
Like I said, I don't care strongly about this. (I'm easy.)
but hex notation (like you said later) sounds good.
--
~Randy
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