On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 12:04 +1000, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Some buffers may only be partially filled with useful data, while the
> rest
> is padded (typically with 0x00 or 0xff).
>
> This patch introduces a flag to allow the supression of lines of
> repeated
> bytes, which are replaced with '** Skipped %u bytes of value 0x%x **'
>
> An inline wrapper function is provided for backwards compatibility
> with
> existing code, which maintains the original behaviour.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/printk.h | 25 +++++++++---
> lib/hexdump.c | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> ----
> 2 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h
> index cefd374c47b1..d7754799cfe0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/printk.h
> +++ b/include/linux/printk.h
> @@ -481,13 +481,18 @@ enum {
> DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS,
> DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET
> };
> +
> extern int hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len, int
> rowsize,
> int groupsize, char *linebuf, size_t
> linebuflen,
> bool ascii);
> +
> +#define HEXDUMP_ASCII BIT(0)
> +#define HEXDUMP_SUPPRESS_REPEATED BIT(1)
> +
This is missing the include of linux/bits.h, I'll fix this in the next
version.
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