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Message-ID: <13797318.O9o76ZdvQC@mbox>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:29:21 +0530
From: akshay bansod <akbansd@...il.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>,
 Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>,
 David Lechner <dlechner@...libre.com>,
 Nuno Sá <nuno.sa@...log.com>,
 Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>,
 linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] iio: st_lsm6dsx: Replace scnprintf with sysfs_emit

On Saturday, 2 August 2025 10:26 pm +0530 Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:47:31 +0300
> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 04:41:00PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:42:28 +0300
> > > Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com> wrote:  
> > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 07:43:59PM +0530, Akshay Bansod wrote:  
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > > >  	fs_table = &hw->settings->fs_table[sensor->id];
> > > > >  	for (i = 0; i < fs_table->fs_len; i++)
> > > > > -		len += scnprintf(buf + len, PAGE_SIZE - len, "0.%09u ",
> > > > > -				 fs_table->fs_avl[i].gain);
> > > > > -	buf[len - 1] = '\n';
> > > > > +		len += sysfs_emit_at(buf, len, "0.%09u ",
> > > > > +				     fs_table->fs_avl[i].gain);
> > > > > +
> > > > > +	sysfs_emit_at(buf, len - 1, "\n");    
> > > > 
> > > > Still looks a bit weird (while working).
> > > >   
> > > > >  	return len;    
> > > > 
> > > > I deally we should have a helper doing all this under the hood for plenty of
> > > > the (existing) users in the kernel.  
> > > 
> > > hmm I'm not sure generic is terribly easy  
> > 
> > I agree, I have some plans for %p specifier extension, but I was stuck with it
> > and it in half-basked state in some of my local Git branches.
> > 
> > > and I'd prefer this using the
> > > read_avail callbacks that require the data in an array where ever possible.
> > > Mind you that does the same print at len - 1 as this.  Let's play. 
> > > Completely untested.
> > > 
> > > 	for (i = 0; i < fs_table->fs_len; i++)
> > > 		len += sysfs_emit_at(buf, len, "0x%09u%c",
> > > 				     fs_table->fs_avl[i].gain,
> > > 				     ((i == fs_table->fs_len - 1) ? '\n', ' '));
> > > 
> > > better?  
> > 
> > Without extra parentheses this makes the job.
> > 
> Akshay, can you spin a new version along those lines?

Apologies for the delay. Here's the revision
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/20250811165641.1214347-1-akbansd@gmail.com/


> > 
> > > It's definitely not more readable than the above, but it does avoid the write
> > > to len - 1.
> > >   
> > > > In any case, I leave this change to others to comment, I don't object pushing
> > > > it in this form, either way len - 1 is simply weird.  
> > 
> 
> 





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