Re: [patch 7/7] fs, notify: Add procfs fdinfo helper v6

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On Saturday 2012-11-17 00:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>  | pos:	0
>>  | flags:	02000000
>>  | inotify wd:        3 ino:             9e7e
>>  | inotify wd:        2 ino:             a111
>>  | inotify wd:        1 ino:            6b149[...]
>
>This is a lousy output format.  It's sort-of like a sensible set of
>name-value tuples: "name:value name:value name:value" but
>
>c) inotify-wd is secretly printed in decimal while everything else
>   is in hex.
>
>What happens if we do something like the below (which will require a
>changelog update)?
>
>@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static int show_mark_fhandle(struct seq_
> 	f.handle.handle_type = ret;
> 	f.handle.handle_bytes = size * sizeof(u32);
> 
>-	ret = seq_printf(m, "fhandle-bytes: %8x fhandle-type: %8x f_handle: ",
>+	ret = seq_printf(m, "fhandle-bytes:%x fhandle-type:%x f_handle:",
> 			 f.handle.handle_bytes, f.handle.handle_type);

Why don't we actually make sure to print a 0x prefix when it's hex
and 0 on octal? Then it should be clear what base these lines are in.
(That would also be a good idea for the rest of procfs files, but I
reckon they cannot be easily changed.)
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