Excerpts from Rasmus Villemoes's message of 2015-02-21 00:26:22 +1100:
C99 says that a precision given as simply '.' with no following digits
or * should be interpreted as 0. The kernel's printf implementation,
however, treats this case as if the precision was omitted. C99 also
says that if both the precision and value are 0, no digits should be
printed. Even if the kernel followed C99 to the letter, I don't think
that would be particularly useful in these cases, so just remove the
precision specifiers.
Nice catch Rasmus, but I think a better patch would be one that adds the
missing precision (%.16llx).
Cheers,
-Ian