linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/4] Add routine for generating an ID for kernel pointer

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Date:	Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:57:55 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Kyle Moffett <kyle@...fetthome.net>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] Add routine for generating an ID for kernel pointer

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:55:29PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
...
> 
> Don't hexdump the key, just return pure binary and allow the user to
> encode it if they care (EG: files in "proc" would hexdump, but a
> syscall would not).  Also, I somehow suspect there is a preexisting
> function to do this for a byte array.
> 

Thanks a *lot* for comments, Kyle! I'll think about it and try to make
some draft prototype.

	Cyrill
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