On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:45 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > This patch adds a support of the variable width buffer to print it > as a hex string with a delimiter. Hi again Andy. > diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c [] > @@ -655,6 +655,57 @@ char *resource_string(char *buf, char *end, struct resource *res, > } > > static noinline_for_stack > +char *hex_string(char *buf, char *end, u8 *addr, struct printf_spec spec, > + const char *fmt) > +{ > + char hex_str[8*3+1]; /* support up to 8 bytes to print */ I think you don't need hex_str at all. [] > + if (spec.field_width <= 0) > + /* nothing to print */ > + return buf; It may be better to default to a 1 and add if (addr == ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR) to avoid dereferencing a NULL or a pointer to a zero length object. > + > + len = min_t(int, spec.field_width, 64); > + > + while (i < len) { > + p = hex_str; > + for (j = 0; j < 8 && i < len; j++, i++) { > + p = hex_byte_pack(p, addr[i]); > + > + if (separator && i != len - 1) > + *p++ = separator; > + } > + *p = '\0'; > + > + for (p = hex_str; *p != '\0'; p++) { > + if (buf < end) > + *buf = *p; > + ++buf; > + } why not just directly write to *buf as long as buf < end? cheers, Joe -- 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