How to choose format specifier for boolean variables in Linux kernel?

慕冬亮 mudongliangabcd at gmail.com
Mon May 24 10:39:49 EDT 2021


On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:39 PM Fox Chen <foxhlchen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:27 PM 慕冬亮 <mudongliangabcd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:22 PM Fox Chen <foxhlchen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 6:51 PM 慕冬亮 <mudongliangabcd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > how do I choose format specifier for boolean variables in Linux
> > > > kernel? For example,
> > > >
> > > > bool bup;
> > > > pr_alert("%XXX", bup);
> > > >
> > > > What should "XXX" be in the Linux kernel?
> > > >
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> > > Check commit 6e21828743 ("Generic boolean")
> > > IIUC bool is defined as Bool_. You can treat it as an integer with the
> > > value 0 or 1.
> >
> > You mean I can directly print boolean variable with "%d"?
> >
> yes, or if you want it to be more readable, you can do
> pr_alert("%s", bup ? "true":"false");
>

Thanks. This is really helpful.

> > >
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > fox
>
> fox



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