On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 12:04 +1000, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alast...@d-silva.org>
> 
> Apologies for the large CC list, it's a heads up for those responsible
> for subsystems where a prototype change in generic code causes a change
> in those subsystems.
> 
> This series enhances hexdump.

Still not a fan of these patches.

> These improve the readability of the dumped data in certain situations
> (eg. wide terminals are available, many lines of empty bytes exist, etc).

Changing hexdump's last argument from bool to int is odd.

Perhaps a new function should be added instead of changing
the existing hexdump.

> The default behaviour of hexdump is unchanged, however, the prototype
> for hex_dump_to_buffer() has changed, and print_hex_dump() has been
> renamed to print_hex_dump_ext(), with a wrapper replacing it for
> compatibility with existing code, which would have been too invasive to
> change.
> 
> Hexdump selftests have be run & confirmed passed.


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