Re: [PATCH] Input: synaptics-rmi4 - use %ph to form F34 configuration ID

Joe Perches
2017-05-30T19:17:29Z

On Tue, 2017-05-30 at 22:04 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-05-30 at 10:23 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-05-30 at 09:59 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:23:58AM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> > > > On May 29 2017 or thereabouts, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > >
> > > Or we'd need to introduce %pH I guess.
> >
> > As it's debugging output, I'd hazard to guess it doesn't matter.
> >
> > If someone _really_ needs upper-case output in *ph,
>
> Starting from the same...
> >
> > A pity that %ph[cdnCDN] isn't possible as that's the style used
> > by %pU[blBL] for lower/upper case output.
> >
> > There are < 80 uses of %[\*\d]+ph[CDN], maybe it'd be reasonable
> > to do a treewide sed to lowercase for them.  Dunno.

It's more like ~300 when the grep is done properly,
-E needed to be -P, so I believe that's too many to
bother with a treewide sed.

> And I think less intrusive would be
> %pH[CDN]
> since the latter proposal misses plain %*ph use.

No it wouldn't necessarily.
%*phU could still be upper case too.

> But for now I would rather avoid it at all, I'm pretty sure there very
> rare cases when one needs
> 1) to print a dump, *and*
> 2) it should be upper cased.

Doubtful, but maybe there is a seq_ use somewhere
that could be converted.

Anyway I think the proposed change in the original
patch is fine and nothing else needs to be done.