linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/11] staging: comedi: formatting of pointers in printk()

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Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:46:29 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@...il.com>
CC:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@...il.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
	Alexander Kurz <linux@...babel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] staging: comedi: formatting of pointers in printk()

On 07/15/2010 08:42 AM, Kulikov Vasiliy wrote:
> Use %p instead of %08x in printk().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/quatech_daqp_cs.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/quatech_daqp_cs.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/quatech_daqp_cs.c
> index 8d16380..8b49cb1 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/quatech_daqp_cs.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/quatech_daqp_cs.c
> @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static void hex_dump(char *str, void *ptr, int len)

The name and parameters suggest to remove the function completely. (And
use print_hex_dump_bytes instead.)

>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
>  		if (i % 16 == 0)
> -			printk("\n0x%08x:", (unsigned int)cptr);
> +			printk("\n%p:", cptr);
>  
>  		printk(" %02x", *(cptr++));
>  	}


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js
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