On Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:26:59 +1100 NeilBrown <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Mar 2026, Jeff Layton wrote: > > On Tue, 2026-03-03 at 10:55 +0000, David Howells wrote: > > > Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > This version splits the change up to be more bisectable. It first adds a > > > > new kino_t typedef and a new "PRIino" macro to hold the width specifier > > > > for format strings. The conversion is done, and then everything is > > > > changed to remove the new macro and typedef. > > > > > > Why remove the typedef? It might be better to keep it. > > > > > > > Why? After this change, internel kernel inodes will be u64's -- full > > stop. I don't see what the macro or typedef will buy us at that point. > > Implicit documentation? > ktime_t is (now) always s64, but we still keep the typedef; > > It would be cool if we could teach vsprintf to understand some new > specifier to mean "kinode_t" or "ktime_t" etc. But that would trigger > gcc warnings. A more interesting one would be something that made gcc re-write the format with the correct 'length modifier' for the parameter. That would save a lot of effort! David > > NeilBrown >
