netdev - [RFC] ipv6: Change %pI6 format to output compacted addresses?

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Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:39:20 +0200
From:	Jens Rosenboom <jens@...one.net>
To:	Linux Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [RFC] ipv6: Change %pI6 format to output compacted addresses?

Currently the output looks like 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001
which might be compacted to 2001:db8::1. The code to do this could be
adapted from inet_ntop in glibc, which would add about 80 lines to
lib/vsprintf.c. How do you guys value the tradeoff between more readable
logging and increased kernel size?

This was already mentioned in
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/11/25/4231684 but
noone seems to have taken up on it.

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