netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] string: Consolidate yesno() helpers under string.h hood

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Date:   Mon, 15 Feb 2021 16:39:26 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Mikita Lipski <mikita.lipski@....com>,
        Eryk Brol <eryk.brol@....com>,
        Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] string: Consolidate yesno() helpers under string.h hood

+Cc: Sakari and printk people

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 4:28 PM Christian König
<christian.koenig@....com> wrote:
> Am 15.02.21 um 15:21 schrieb Andy Shevchenko:
> > We have already few similar implementation and a lot of code that can benefit
> > of the yesno() helper.  Consolidate yesno() helpers under string.h hood.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
>
> Looks like a good idea to me, feel free to add an Acked-by: Christian
> König <christian.koenig@....com> to the series.

Thanks.

> But looking at the use cases for this, wouldn't it make more sense to
> teach kprintf some new format modifier for this?

As a next step? IIRC Sakari has at some point the series converted
yesno and Co. to something which I don't remember the details of.

Guys, what do you think?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko