On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 04:57:58PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 04:46:12PM -0500, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
...
> > I think the proper solution would be to have actually
> > sensible conversion specifiers in the format string.
> > So instead of %<set of random characters> we'd have something
> > more like %{drm_crtc} (or whatever color you want to throw
> > on that particular bikeshed).
>
> Personally I suck at remembering even the standard printf conversion
> specifiers, let alone all the kernel extensions. I basically have to
> look them up every time. I'd really love some %{name} format for named
> pointer things. And indeed preferrably without the %p. Just %{name}.
It will become something like %{name[:subextensions]}, where subextensions
is what we now have with different letters/numbers after %pX (X is a letter
which you proposed to have written as name AFAIU).
> And then we could discuss adding support for drm specific things. I
> guess one downside is that the functions to do this would have to be in
> vsprintf.c instead of drm. Unless we add some code in drm for this
> that's always built-in.
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
