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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 0/7] Hexdump Enhancements
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On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 22:01 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-06-25 at 13:17 +1000, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> > From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> >
> > Apologies for the large CC list, it's a heads up for those
> > responsible
> > for subsystems where a prototype change in generic code causes a
> > change
> > in those subsystems.
> []
> > The default behaviour of hexdump is unchanged, however, the
> > prototype
> > for hex_dump_to_buffer() has changed, and print_hex_dump() has been
> > renamed to print_hex_dump_ext(), with a wrapper replacing it for
> > compatibility with existing code, which would have been too
> > invasive to
> > change.
>
> I believe this cover letter is misleading.
>
> The point of the wrapper is to avoid unnecessary changes
> in existing
> code.
>
>

The wrapper is for print_hex_dump(), which has many callers.

The changes to existing code are for hex_dump_to_buffer(), which is
called in relatively few places.

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