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Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in print_hex_dump functions

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On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:16:36 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 14:09 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed,____9 Dec 2015 13:59:30 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > There are use cases for dumping buffers with specific endian types
> > > for 2, 4, and 8 byte variables in arrays.
> > > 
> > > Add an enum for DUMP_TYPE_(LE|BE|CPU) to enable emitting them as such.
> > > 
> > > Rename groupsize to groupflags in the functions and add documentation
> > > to the kernel-doc to describe the use of the DUMP_TYPE_ enum.
> > 
> > What are these use cases?
> 
> Buffers that contain LE or BE arrays that want
> to be emitted by print_hex_dump.

Make that "where are".

> > Will patches be forthcoming to convert them?
> 
> Sure, after a settling period for Masahiro's patch
> to be applied upstream.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/8/480

One single callsite under #ifdef DEBUG?  Doesn't seem to warrant adding
code and complexity to core library functions.

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[PATCH v2] of/address: replace printk() with pr_debug() / pr_err() Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2015-12-08 17:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] of/address: replace printk() with pr_debug() /  pr_err() Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-12-08 17:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] of/address: replace printk() with pr_debug() /  pr_err() Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-12-08 18:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] of/address: replace printk() with pr_debug() / pr_err() Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> - 2015-12-08 22:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2] of/address: replace printk() with pr_debug() /  pr_err() Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-12-09 01:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2] of/address: replace printk() with pr_debug() / pr_err() Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 13:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2] of/address: replace printk() with pr_debug() /  pr_err() Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-12-09 20:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v2] of/address: replace printk() with pr_debug() / pr_err() Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 21:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2] of/address: replace printk() with pr_debug() /  pr_err() Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-12-09 21:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2] of/address: replace printk() with pr_debug() / pr_err() Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2015-12-09 21:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2] of/address: replace printk() with pr_debug() / pr_err() Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 21:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2] of/address: replace printk() with pr_debug() /  pr_err() Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-12-09 21:50 +0100
        [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in print_hex_dump functions Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-12-09 23:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in  print_hex_dump functions Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-12-09 23:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in  print_hex_dump functions Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-12-09 23:20 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in  print_hex_dump functions Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-12-09 23:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in  print_hex_dump functions Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-12-10 00:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in  print_hex_dump functions Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 23:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in  print_hex_dump functions Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-12-09 23:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in  print_hex_dump functions Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-12-10 00:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in  print_hex_dump functions Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-12-10 00:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in  print_hex_dump functions kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2015-12-10 07:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in  print_hex_dump functions Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-12-10 07:30 +0100

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