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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] iomap: new code for 5.13-rc1
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 12:40:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We have '%pD' for printing a filename. It may not be perfect (by
> default it only prints one component, you can do "%pD4" to show up to
> four components), but it should "JustWork(tm)".
>
> And if it doesn't, we should fix it.
>
> So instead of having a kmalloc/kfree for the path buffer, I think you
> should have been able to just do
>
> pr_err("swapon: file %pD4 %s\n", isi->file, str);
>
> and be done with it.

I'm aware of %pD, but 4 components here are not enough. People
need to distinguish between xfstests runs and something real in
the system for these somewhat scary sounding messages.

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