[PATCH v2 001/110] vfs: introduce kino_t typedef and PRIino format macro
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Tue Mar 3 05:36:38 PST 2026
On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 08:25:46PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > That being said, the userspace PRIu64, et. al macros are complete
> > format specifiers, not just a length modifier. And I think this
> > results in less ugly format specifiers in our kernel code.
>
> Yeah, I don't like "ino=%" PRIino "u, lolz\n" either. I'd rather have
> the whole format in the PRIino definition -- it /is/ unsigned long
> after all.
Just drop the bloody macro and the pointless micro-splitting of the
change. After this the inode is always 64-bit and we can just use
normal ll specifiers without messing things up.
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