RE: [PATCH 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: Make %p{D,d} mean as much components as possible

Justin He
2021-04-30T01:36:13Z

Hi

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: Make %p{D,d} mean as much
> components as possible
>
> On Thu 2021-04-29 11:52:49, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:47 AM Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed 2021-04-28 21:59:27, Jia He wrote:
> > > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > > >
> > > > We have '%pD'(no digit following) for printing a filename. It may not
> be
> > > > perfect (by default it only prints one component.
> > > >
> > > > %pD4 should be more than good enough, but we should make plain "%pD"
> mean
> > > > "as much of the path that is reasonable" rather than "as few
> components as
> > > > possible" (ie 1).
> > >
> > > Could you please provide link to the discussion where this idea was
> > > came from?
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210427025805.GD3122264@magnolia/
>
> Thanks for the link. I see that it was not clear whether the patch
> was good for %pd behavior.
>
> Linus actually suggests to keep %pd behavior as it was before, see
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wimsMqGdzik187YWLb-
> ru+iktb4MYbMQG1rnZ81dXYFVg@mail.gmail.com/

Okay, let me keep the default %pd behavior as before('%pd' is '%pd1') and
change the behavior of %pD ('%pD' is '%pD4')

--
Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)
>
> Well, I think that this is up to the file system developers to decide.
> I am not sure if the path would do more harm than good,
> or vice versa, for dentry names.
>
> Best Regards,
> Petr
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