Re: [PATCH][RFC] vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its 3 users

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:32:12 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> 
> a printf variant that outputs not into a string buffer but into 
> a binary-values buffer.

Oh, OK.

Of course, parsing a printf string (using our
nobody-bothered-optimising-it parser) isn't particularly efficient
either.

Is there a case here for adding a new way of describing how to
serialise the incoming data?  Perhaps with a new and simpler control
string or perhaps even

	struct ftrace_thing ft;

	init_ftrace_thing(&ft, "%d %l %s");
	add_ftrace_thing_int(&ft, some_int);
	add_ftrace_thing_long(&ft, some_long);
	add_ftrace_thing_string(&ft, some_string);
	emit_ftrace_thing(&ft);

or some similar thing.