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

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Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:52:23 +0200
From:	Jens Rosenboom <jens@...one.net>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>,
	Linux Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: Change %pI6 format to output compacted addresses?

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 03:39 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 21:33 -0400, Brian Haley wrote:
> > Jens Rosenboom wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Anyways, can you try this patch, it's less than 40 new lines :)
> > It might be good enough, but could probably use some help.
> 
> You'll need to invent a new %p qualifier type to allow
> compressed representation.  Your patch will change current uses
> with seq_<foo> output in net, which could break userspace.

Would it be possible to transform this to using %pi6, as most of teh
seq_* stuff already does? It doesn't make sense to shorten the
un-colon-ed version anyway, I'll send an updated version of Brian's
patch soon.

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