`cat control` currently does octal escape, so '\n' becomes "\012". Change this to display as "\n" instead, which reads much cleaner. :#> head -n7 /proc/dynamic_debug/control # filename:lineno [module]function flags format init/main.c:1179 [main]initcall_blacklist =_ "blacklisting initcall %s\n" init/main.c:1218 [main]initcall_blacklisted =_ "initcall %s blacklisted\n" init/main.c:1424 [main]run_init_process =_ " with arguments:\n" init/main.c:1426 [main]run_init_process =_ " %s\n" init/main.c:1427 [main]run_init_process =_ " with environment:\n" init/main.c:1429 [main]run_init_process =_ " %s\n" Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/dynamic_debug.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c index 8ff11977b8bd..e5cbe603000c 100644 --- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c +++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c @@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ static int ddebug_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p) trim_prefix(dp->filename), dp->lineno, iter->table->mod_name, dp->function, ddebug_describe_flags(dp->flags, &flags)); - seq_escape(m, dp->format, "\t\r\n\""); + seq_escape_str(m, dp->format, ESCAPE_SPACE, "\t\r\n\""); seq_puts(m, "\"\n"); return 0; -- 2.37.1