linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: Make %p{D,d} mean as much components as possible

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Message-ID: <CAHp75Vfx8aGQGJR58o49t2bOtu5adkrSRfWW9bb63OBoePcj1g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:10:13 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Jia He <justin.he@....com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: Make %p{D,d} mean as much components
 as possible

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 5:56 PM Jia He <justin.he@....com> wrote:
>
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

Hmm... Okay.

> We have '%pD'(no digit following) for printing a filename. It may not be
> perfect (by default it only prints one component.
>
> %pD4 should be more than good enough, but we should make plain "%pD" mean
> "as much of the path that is reasonable" rather than "as few components as
> possible" (ie 1).

Sorry, but from above I didn't get why.

The commit message tells only about %pD, but patch changes behaviour
of the ~100 or so users of "%pd" without any explanation.

Besides that the patch is prepended only by one change (which is also
not related to %pD), while we have ~30 users which behaviour got
changed.


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko