Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in print_hex_dump functions | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:16:36 -0800 |
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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.
> 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
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