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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nicolas.ferre@atmel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] jffs2: fix buffer dump debug output
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:54:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1413885267.7906.426.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54462BB6.5020405@atmel.com>

On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 11:47 +0200, Cyrille Pitchen wrote:
> thanks for your comment. Indeed using print_hex_dump() would be a good idea
> since it would avoid each driver to implement its own version of buffer dumps.
> Reading the source code of print_hex_dump(), the output format would change a
> little bit:
> the output would no longer be aligned to JFFS2_BUFDUMP_BYTES_PER_LINE boundary
> using leading spaces.
> If it's ok to change the output format it's good for me as well.

Changing format is OK, this is just a debugging cruft. But it is OK only
if you test the changes. If you are unable to test the changes, it is
better to avoid doing non-trivial changes.

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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nicolas.ferre@atmel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] jffs2: fix buffer dump debug output
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:54:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1413885267.7906.426.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54462BB6.5020405@atmel.com>

On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 11:47 +0200, Cyrille Pitchen wrote:
> thanks for your comment. Indeed using print_hex_dump() would be a good idea
> since it would avoid each driver to implement its own version of buffer dumps.
> Reading the source code of print_hex_dump(), the output format would change a
> little bit:
> the output would no longer be aligned to JFFS2_BUFDUMP_BYTES_PER_LINE boundary
> using leading spaces.
> If it's ok to change the output format it's good for me as well.

Changing format is OK, this is just a debugging cruft. But it is OK only
if you test the changes. If you are unable to test the changes, it is
better to avoid doing non-trivial changes.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-21  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-21  8:04 [PATCH 0/2] *** jffs2: fix debug outputs *** Cyrille Pitchen
2014-10-21  8:04 ` Cyrille Pitchen
2014-10-21  8:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] jffs2: fix wrong offset in an error msg from __jff2_dbg_prewrite_paranoia_check Cyrille Pitchen
2014-10-21  8:04   ` Cyrille Pitchen
2014-10-21  8:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] jffs2: fix buffer dump debug output Cyrille Pitchen
2014-10-21  8:05   ` Cyrille Pitchen
2014-10-21  8:17   ` Joe Perches
2014-10-21  8:17     ` Joe Perches
2014-10-21  9:47     ` Cyrille Pitchen
2014-10-21  9:47       ` Cyrille Pitchen
2014-10-21  9:54       ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2014-10-21  9:54         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2014-10-21 10:17         ` Cyrille Pitchen
2014-10-21 10:17           ` Cyrille Pitchen

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