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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	jengelh@computergmbh.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reduce stack used by lib/hexdump.c
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:42:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196908955.10819.64.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47575C07.1080001@oracle.com>

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 18:18 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Joe Perches wrote:
> > Maybe just eliminate the 16 or 32 byte width option and
> > force it to only 16 byte widths.
> Have you checked users (callers)?  I'm pretty sure that one of the
> callers wanted 32 and that's why it's there.

I did.  There is only 1 subsystem.  That's easy to change.

drivers/mtd/ubi/debug.c:  print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG, "", DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET, 32, 1,
drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:     print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG, "", DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET, 32, 1,

Long lines in the log file are not too easy to read anyway.
Using 16 byte dumps per line instead of 32 isn't painful.

It gets rid of the allocation, reduces the argument count
and makes the kernel smaller.  I think it's all good.

Every current caller would have to change though.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-06  2:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-29 18:08 [PATCH] Remove #define hex_asc from kernel.h, update lib/hexdump.c Joe Perches
2007-11-29 18:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-11-29 18:44   ` Joe Perches
2007-11-29 18:52     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-11-29 18:55       ` Joe Perches
2007-11-29 20:57       ` [PATCH] Reduce stack used by lib/hexdump.c Joe Perches
2007-11-29 21:02         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-11-29 21:07           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-29 23:28             ` Joe Perches
2007-12-06  0:01               ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06  2:10                 ` Joe Perches
2007-12-06  2:18                   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-12-06  2:42                     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2007-12-06  5:58                       ` Kyle Moffett
2007-12-06  7:10                         ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 21:52                 ` Joe Perches

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