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

Andy Shevchenko
2021-04-29T08:53:09Z

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/

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko