linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: pi433: add rf69_dbg

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Date:   Sat, 12 Feb 2022 08:22:40 +1300
From:   Paulo Miguel Almeida <paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@...il.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, realwakka@...il.com,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: pi433: add rf69_dbg_hex function

thanks for taking the time to review my patch

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 05:25:28PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> I feel like this patch is over engineering your debug code.  Is this
> really worthwhile?  If you really prefer the new format that's fine but
> it seems like not necessarily a good use of energy.
> 

After reflecting on it for while, I think that you and Greg are right
not to like the approach taken.

> > +	}
> 
> Instead of printing lineline at a time in a loop, what happens if you
> just print size bytes?  (I honestly don't know because I have never used
> this function before).
> 

It gets truncated as hex_dump_to_buffer prints at most 32 bytes.

thanks,

Paulo Almeida