Re: [PATCH 0/2] hexdump: Allow skipping identical lines

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 06:24:14PM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> While working on NAND issues, I used print_hex_dump() a lot to compare
> data. But I am mostly working on embedded systems where the kernel
> messages go through a serial console. Sometimes network support is an
> option, sometimes not. Anyway, I often print buffers both in kernel
> space and user space to compare them, and they may be full of 0's or
> 1's, which means lines are repeated a lot in the output and this is slow
> *and* hard to compare.
> 
> I initially hacked into lib/hexdump.c for my own purpose and just
> discarded all the other users, but it felt like this might be a useful
> feature for others and decided to make it a public patch.
> 
> * First patch changes the "ascii" parameter into a "flags" variable now
>   accepting the value: DUMP_FLAG_ASCII.
> * Second patch adds a new flag to skip the identical lines, because this
>   must be an opt-in parameter, I guess.

This is quite a long to look into, can you please add a summary here which
includes (but not limited to) the following:
1) examples before and after (ah, I see you have that in the patch 2,
   but would be still good to have in the cover letter);
2) excerpts of the code for before and after (since the type of the ascii
   parameter had been changed).

Also here is the formal NAK till the series gains the test cases.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko