Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] ACPI: Add acpi_pr_<level>() interfaces

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:37 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>     PNP0C01:00: new device for \_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.MBIO
> 
> I fiddled with this a while ago; it would look something like this:
[]
> +static noinline_for_stack
> +char *acpi_name_string(char *buf, char *end, acpi_handle handle,
> +		       struct printf_spec spec, const char *fmt)
> +{
> +	acpi_status status;
> +	struct acpi_buffer buffer = { ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, NULL };
> +	u32 type = ACPI_SINGLE_NAME;
> +	char *p = buf;
> +
> +	if (fmt[0] == 'A')
> +		type = ACPI_FULL_PATHNAME;

maybe if (fmt[1] == 'f')

> @@ -982,6 +1007,9 @@ char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
>  	}
>  
>  	switch (*fmt) {
> +	case 'A':
> +	case 'a':
> +		return acpi_name_string(buf, end, ptr, spec, fmt);

There are only so many letters, it might be better to
just use 'a' and another 'f' after that if necessary
for "full".

And of course that should be #ifdef'd too

cheers, Joe