On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:46:55 +0300 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 17:19 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Or maybe you could develop an extension for printk() format that > > would dump strings of the given length? Something like %pM, but > > with an extra argument (and make sure it would not trigger a gcc > > warning). This way, everybody would benefit. > I don't think it would be a noticeable benefit. On the other hand > vsnprintf() is hugely overloaded by many "extensions" to the C99 > variant. I looked at the code, and it seems very little is needed to support "%*pM" > > Please rethink whether it's helpful to send such "fixes" for old and > > little maintained drivers. > Last copyright is 2010, TODO list actually suggests to remove hex2str > at all. I don't know where it's written, but I think it's a good idea, especially if there is a better alternative available for all drivers. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
