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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Rosenboom <jens@mcbone.net>,
	Linux Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: Change %pI6 format to output compacted addresses?
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:39:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250159961.28285.35.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A836D6D.1040400@hp.com>

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 21:33 -0400, Brian Haley wrote:
> Jens Rosenboom wrote:
> > Currently the output looks like 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001
> > which might be compacted to 2001:db8::1. The code to do this could be
> > adapted from inet_ntop in glibc, which would add about 80 lines to
> > lib/vsprintf.c. How do you guys value the tradeoff between more readable
> > logging and increased kernel size?
> > 
> > This was already mentioned in
> > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/11/25/4231684 but
> > noone seems to have taken up on it.
> 
> Anyways, can you try this patch, it's less than 40 new lines :)
> It might be good enough, but could probably use some help.

You'll need to invent a new %p qualifier type to allow
compressed representation.  Your patch will change current uses
with seq_<foo> output in net, which could break userspace.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-13 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-12 15:39 [RFC] ipv6: Change %pI6 format to output compacted addresses? Jens Rosenboom
2009-08-13  1:33 ` Brian Haley
2009-08-13 10:39   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2009-08-13 13:52     ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-08-13 15:07       ` Joe Perches
2009-08-13 14:39   ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-08-13 15:14     ` Chuck Lever
2009-08-13 16:27     ` Brian Haley
2009-08-13 18:10       ` Joe Perches
2009-08-13 18:15         ` Chuck Lever
2009-08-13 18:21           ` Joe Perches
2009-08-13 18:39             ` Chuck Lever
2009-08-13 19:05               ` Joe Perches
2009-08-13 20:24                 ` Brian Haley
2009-08-13 20:28               ` Brian Haley
2009-08-13 20:24         ` Brian Haley
2009-08-13 20:34           ` Joe Perches
2009-08-13 21:02             ` Chuck Lever
2009-08-13 21:13               ` Joe Perches
2009-08-13 23:31                 ` David Miller
2009-08-14  6:22                   ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-08-14  7:15                     ` David Miller
2009-08-14  8:15                       ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-08-14 20:12                         ` David Miller
2009-08-15 15:24                           ` [PATCH] lib/vsprintf.c: Add "%pI6c" - print pointer as compressed ipv6 address Joe Perches
2009-08-16  4:10                             ` [RFC PATCH] lib/vsprintf.c: Add struct sockaddr * "%pN<foo>" output Joe Perches
2009-08-19 14:26                               ` Chuck Lever
2009-08-19 20:44                                 ` [RFC PATCH V2] " Joe Perches
2009-08-19 22:20                                   ` Chuck Lever
2009-08-19 22:36                                     ` Joe Perches
2009-08-19 23:00                                       ` Chuck Lever
2009-08-20  4:24                                       ` Joe Perches
2009-08-20  4:29                                         ` David Miller
2009-08-17 15:18                             ` [PATCH] lib/vsprintf.c: Add "%pI6c" - print pointer as compressed ipv6 address Jens Rosenboom
2009-08-17 22:29                               ` [PATCH V2] " Joe Perches
2009-08-18 13:48                                 ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-08-29  7:20                                   ` David Miller
2009-08-14 16:26                 ` [RFC] ipv6: Change %pI6 format to output compacted addresses? Chuck Lever
2009-08-13 14:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-13 14:30   ` Jens Rosenboom

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