[PATCH] fix printf string specifiers, otherwise kexec doesn't work on my laptop

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 13:10:10 PDT 2025


On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM Askar Safin <safinaskar at zohomail.com> wrote:
>  ---- On Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:00:45 +0400  Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote ---
>  > Thanks for your report and the fix! My comments below.
> Andy, thank you for answer! I will write second version of my patch soon.

Just to be clear, if you want all changes you listed, it should be a
patch series and not a single patch.

> Also, please look at another my report: https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/9eac81e6-b4ee-4210-84ac-cbf7bf811130@kernel.org/ .
> Mario Limonciello said that we need you specially to proceed.

Thanks for heads up.

>  > > 3. uint64_t a; printf ("%w64x", a);
>  >
>  > Haven't heard about it. Which C/POSIX/etc standard is this?
> Introduced in C23. https://www.c-language.org/ .
> https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3220.pdf , 7.23.6.1

A-ha, then it's definitely no, even if it compiles with all used
compilers. Too young a standard to follow.

>  > > * Laptop Dell Precision 7780
> Side note: I bought this laptop, because it seems to be the only laptop in the world,
> which has ECC memory and in the same time doesn't have nvidia.

Hmm... okay.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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