linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] lib/vsprintf: add %*pE[achnops] format specifier

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Date:	Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:35:57 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	"John W . Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] lib/vsprintf: add %*pE[achnops] format
 specifier

On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 11:24 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 09:50 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Perhaps better if -1 was accepted by string_escape_mem
> > as a strlen request or just ignored as a 0 length is
> > above.
> 
> Would it be any benefit here?

Dunno, it was just a thought for you.

> > fyi: hex_string emits nothing on printk("%ph", buf);
> 
> Works just fine. How did you check it?

By not reading the code correctly.
So what you have is fine.


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