netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 2/5] ice: configure FW logging

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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 08:30:00 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Paul M Stillwell Jr <paul.m.stillwell.jr@...el.com>
Cc: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, <edumazet@...gle.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
 <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>, <vaishnavi.tipireddy@...el.com>,
 <horms@...nel.org>, <leon@...nel.org>, Pucha Himasekhar Reddy
 <himasekharx.reddy.pucha@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 2/5] ice: configure FW logging

On Sat, 9 Dec 2023 16:09:40 -0800 Paul M Stillwell Jr wrote:
> This brings up the question of whether I should use seq_printf() for all 
> the other _read fucntions. It feels like a lot of extra code to do it 
> for the other _read functions because they output so little info and we 
> control the output so it seems to be overkill to use seq_printf() for 
> those. What do you think?

My rule of thumb would be to use seq_printf() if you have to allocate 
a buffer on the heap for the output. If you can output directly to user
space or the output is small enough to fit in an on-stack buffer - no
need for seq_printf(). But YMMV.