On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:53:09 +0200
>> We could probably introduce a %pts format string for timespec64
>> and have that pretty-printed.
>
> Hmm, probably don't want a %p as that suggests its a pointer, which it
> should not be. Unless we pass in the address of the number.
The special format strings that the kernel defines all start with %p and
require passing by reference so we don't get a warning from gcc. We can't
just make up new format strings otherwise, but we can create new meaning
for special pointers as we do for struct resource and others.
Arnd
