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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in
 print_hex_dump functions
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 14:45 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:16:36 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > > Will patches be forthcoming to convert them?
> > Sure, after a settling period for Masahiro's patch
> > to be applied upstream.
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/8/480
> 
> One single callsite under #ifdef DEBUG?  Doesn't seem to warrant adding
> code and complexity to core library functions.

It was just a for-instance.

It's pretty trivial code and it's quite likely there
are other buffers that could be emitted that way.

e.g.: look at code like:

drivers/message/fusion/mptdebug.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_mr.c

Dunno, I didn't look very hard.