linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3 -mm] slub: use lib/hexdump

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Date:	Wed, 30 May 2007 14:48:37 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 -mm] slub: use lib/hexdump

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
>> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
>>
>> Convert slub error memory dump functions to use lib/hexdump routines.
>> Completely eliminate slub's print_section() function.
> 
> I'd like to keep print_section around as it also does some other things. 
> Repeating the output formatting at the various call locations will make
> it difficult to change if you add another whizbang feature.

I have no problems with keeping print_section() except that it's not used
in the current tree after this patch.  :)

> I have a patch here that I could sent out today if hexdump would work the 
> right way.

Please define "the right way."

-- 
~Randy
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