linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] vsprintf: Add %pb[1-64] specifier to print hex memory dump

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:59:12 +0300
From:	Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko.news@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] vsprintf: Add %pb[1-64] specifier to print hex memory dump

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 17:11 +0300, Andrei Emeltchenko wrote:
>> From: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@...el.com>
>>
>> Add new specifier which may be used to print 1-64 bytes of memory.
>> There is often a need to print small (up to 64 bytes) objects like
>> bluetooth keys in debug purposes. Currently we have to create special
>> function for that.
>
> print_hex_dump() ?

If this only needed for debug we would need to undef this?

Regards,
Andrei
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