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