linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: wmi: Fix printing info about WDG structure

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Date:   Sat, 27 May 2017 16:07:09 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: wmi: Fix printing info about WDG structure

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com> wrote:
> object_id and notify_id are in one union structure and their meaning is
> defined by flags. Therefore do not print notify_id for non-event block and
> do not print object_id for event block. Remove also reserved member as it
> does not have any defined meaning or type yet.
>
> As object_id and notify_id union members overlaps and have different types,
> it caused that kernel print to dmesg binary data. This patch eliminates it.

> -       pr_info("\tobject_id: %c%c\n", g->object_id[0], g->object_id[1]);
> -       pr_info("\tnotify_id: %02X\n", g->notify_id);

> -       pr_info("\treserved: %02X\n", g->reserved);

Do we need this? Commit message doesn't clarify.

> +       if (g->flags & ACPI_WMI_EVENT)
> +               pr_info("\tnotify_id: 0x%02X\n", g->notify_id);
> +       else

> +               pr_info("\tobject_id: %c%c\n", g->object_id[0], g->object_id[1]);

If this can still contain non-printable characters the %*pE can help instead.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko