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Message-ID: <8735xubotc.fsf@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:13:03 +0200
From:   Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] string: Consolidate yesno() helpers under string.h hood

On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com> wrote:
> On Mon 2021-02-15 16:39:26, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> +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?
>
> Honestly, I think that yesno() is much easier to understand than %py.
> And %py[DOY] looks really scary. It has been suggested at
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YCqaNnr7ynRydczE@smile.fi.intel.com/#t
>
> Yes, enabledisable() is hard to parse but it is still self-explaining
> and can be found easily by cscope. On the contrary, %pyD will likely
> print some python code and it is not clear if it would be compatible
> with v3. I am just kidding but you get the picture.

Personally I prefer %s and the functions.

I think the format specifiers have become unwieldy. I don't remember any
of the kernel specific ones by heart, I always look them up or just
cargo-cult. I think the fourcc format specifiers are a nice cleanup, but
I don't remember them either. I'd like something like %foo{yesno} where,
if you remember the %foo part, you could actually also remember the
rest.

But really if you get *any* version accepted, I'm not going to argue
against it, and you can disregard this as meaningless bikeshedding.

BR,
Jani.


-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center