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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 05:01:30 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Hexdump Enhancements
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To: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@au1.ibm.com>, alastair@d-silva.org
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>, Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>, Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>, Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>, Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>, Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>, "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Alexa

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.