Re: [PATCH v3] print: introduce a format specifier for pci_sbdf_t

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 30.07.2020 12:08, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 27.07.2020 12:31, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>>> The new format specifier is '%pp', and prints a pci_sbdf_t using the
>>> seg:bus:dev.func format. Replace all SBDFs printed using
>>> '%04x:%02x:%02x.%u' to use the new format specifier.
>>>
>>> No functional change intended.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
>>> For just the pieces where Jan is the only maintainer:
>>> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> [...]
>> In all reality, Roger, it looks to me as if you should have dropped
>> my ack, as there seems to be nothing left at this point that I'm
>> the only maintainer of.
> 
> Yes, just realized that now, I'm sorry. Your Ack happened before Paul
> became a maintainer of vendor-independent IOMMU code and I completely
> forgot about it.
> 
> I think the overall result of having a modifier for printing SBDFs is
> a win for everyone.

No-one disagrees here, I think. It's the "how", not the "what" that
was controversial.

> TBH I just revived the patch because I think it
> will be helpful to the Arm folks doing the PCI work, if not I wouldn't
> have sent it again.

Yes, I understood this to be the case.

Jan