linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/34] Printbufs - new data structure for building strings

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Message-ID: <a674920f-68b0-0b72-5375-da7c062543cc@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 19 Jul 2022 20:17:45 -0400
From:   Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, pmladek@...e.com,
        enozhatsky@...omium.org, linux@...musvillemoes.dk,
        willy@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/34] Printbufs - new data structure for building
 strings

On 7/19/22 20:05, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:43:46 -0400
> Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/19/22 19:15, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>> On Sun, 19 Jun 2022 20:41:59 -0400
>>> Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com> wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Core idea: Wouldn't it be nice if we had a common data structure and calling
>>>> convention for outputting strings?
>>>
>>> Because seq_buf gives us this already, the cover letter really just needs
>>> to state exactly what the benefit is to replace seq_buf with printbuf (and
>>> why seq_buf can not be simply extended to do some extra features).
>>
>>    - seq_buf has the wrong semantics on overflow for what vsnprintf needs.
> 
> More specific please.

Steve, look at the man page for snprintf if you don't see what I mean. 
This discussion has become entirely too tedious, and your _only_ 
contribution to the discussion on pretty-printers has been "why isn't 
this using this thing I made?".

You haven't been contributing to the discussion, you haven't been 
helping figure out what the APIs, helpers, data structures should look 
like, IOW _actually_ building something that could serve as a low level 
string formatting library.

I get that you're busy - but look, we all are, and this patch series has 
already been set back what, a month and a half while I was waiting on you.

I've got the tests now, I'll CC you when v5 is posted.