On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 21:35:44 +0800
weiping zhang <[email protected]> wrote:

> make features string more readable, add space every 8bit.
> example:
> 00101010 01110000 00000000 00001100
> 
> Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
> index 59e36ef..d7d2db1 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
> @@ -50,9 +50,12 @@ static ssize_t features_show(struct device *_d,
>  
>       /* We actually represent this as a bitstring, as it could be
>        * arbitrary length in future. */
> -     for (i = 0; i < sizeof(dev->features)*8; i++)
> -             len += sprintf(buf+len, "%c",
> +     for (i = 0; i < sizeof(dev->features) * 8; i++) {
> +             len += sprintf(buf + len, "%c",
>                              __virtio_test_bit(dev, i) ? '1' : '0');
> +             if (i % 8 == 7)
> +                     len += sprintf(buf + len, " ");
> +     }
>       len += sprintf(buf+len, "\n");
>       return len;
>  }

This might break consumers of this attribute.

I think the better approach is to write a userspace tool that can do
additional helpful stuff (like decoding the feature bits).
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