From: Andrew Murray <amur...@mpc-data.co.uk>

This patch updates the incomplete documentation concerning the printk
extended format specifiers.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <amur...@mpc-data.co.uk>
---
diff --git a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
index 1b5a5dd..df14336 100644
--- a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,42 @@ If variable is of Type,                use printk format 
specifier:
                size_t                  %zu or %zx
                ssize_t                 %zd or %zx

-Raw pointer value SHOULD be printed with %p.
+Raw pointer value SHOULD be printed with %p. The kernel supports
+the following extended format specifiers for pointer types:
+
+       General:
+
+       %pF     function pointer with offset, e.g. module_start
+       %pf     function pointer without offset, e.g. module_start+0x0/0x62 
[hello]
+       %pS     text symbol with offset 
+       %ps     text symbol without offset
+       %pR     struct resource with decoded flags, e.g. [mem 0x0-0x1f 64 bit 
pref]
+       %pr     struct resource with raw flags, e.g. [mem 0x0-0x1f flags 0x201]
+
+       MAC/FDDI addresses:
+       
+       %pM     colon-seperated 6-byte MAC address in hex notation, e.g. 
00:01:02:03:04:05
+       %pm     non-colon-seperated 6-byte MAC address is hex notation, e.g. 
000102030405
+       %pMF    6-byte dash-separated FDDI hex notation
+
+       IPv4 addresses:
+
+       %pI4    IPv4 dot-seperated decimal without leading 0's, e.g. 1.2.3.4
+       %pi4    IPv4 dot-seperated decimal with leading 0's, 001.002.003.004
+       %p[Ii]4[hl] IPv4 dot-seperated decimal with/without leading 0's for
+               host (h), little (l) or network/big (default) endian order
+
+       IPv6 addresses:
+       %pI6    IPv6 colon-seperated network-order 16 bit hex with leading 0's,
+               e.g. 0001:0203:...:0708
+       %pi6    IPv6 non-colon-seperated network-order 16 bit hex with leading 
0's,
+               e.g. 000102...0f
+       %pI6c   IPv6 address as described by
+               
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-text-addr-representation-00,
+               e.g. 1::708
+
+       %pU[bBlL] 16 byte UUID/GUID in big or little endian using lower or 
upper case
+

 u64 SHOULD be printed with %llu/%llx, (unsigned long long):
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