netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: Make %p{D,d} mean as much components as possible

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Message-ID: <CAHp75Vfa3ATc+-Luka9vJTwoCLAPVm38cciYyBYnWxzNQ1DPrg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Apr 2021 11:52:49 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Jia He <justin.he@....com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: Make %p{D,d} mean as much components
 as possible

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:47 AM Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed 2021-04-28 21:59:27, Jia He wrote:
> > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> >
> > We have '%pD'(no digit following) for printing a filename. It may not be
> > perfect (by default it only prints one component.
> >
> > %pD4 should be more than good enough, but we should make plain "%pD" mean
> > "as much of the path that is reasonable" rather than "as few components as
> > possible" (ie 1).
>
> Could you please provide link to the discussion where this idea was
> came from?

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210427025805.GD3122264@magnolia/

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko