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Message-ID: <ea434f6d5a4a8cdd31ca3347c5830bdd857058bf.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:46:09 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        Marco Felsch <m.felsch@...gutronix.de>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Liu Ying <victor.liu@....com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch] vsprintf: Allow %pe to print non PTR_ERR %pe uses
 as decimal

On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 23:36 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 24/03/2021 23.18, Joe Perches wrote:
> > There's no silly game here.  %pe would either print a string or a value.
> 
> A hashed value, that is, never the raw value.

There is value in printing the raw value.
As discussed, it can simplify the code.

The worry about exposing a ptr value is IMO overstated.

It's trivial to inspect the uses and _all_ %p<FOO> uses need inspection
and validation at acceptance anyway.


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