On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:16:36 -0800 Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 14:09 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed,____9 Dec 2015 13:59:30 -0800 Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > There are use cases for dumping buffers with specific endian types > > > for 2, 4, and 8 byte variables in arrays. > > > > > > Add an enum for DUMP_TYPE_(LE|BE|CPU) to enable emitting them as such. > > > > > > Rename groupsize to groupflags in the functions and add documentation > > > to the kernel-doc to describe the use of the DUMP_TYPE_ enum. > > > > What are these use cases? > > Buffers that contain LE or BE arrays that want > to be emitted by print_hex_dump. Make that "where are". > > Will patches be forthcoming to convert them? > > Sure, after a settling period for Masahiro's patch > to be applied upstream. > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/8/480 One single callsite under #ifdef DEBUG? Doesn't seem to warrant adding code and complexity to core library functions. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
