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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pktgen: use %pI6c for printing IPv6 addresses
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 15:11:54 -0700
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On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 00:23 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> I don't know why %pI6 doesn't compress, but the format specifier is
> kernel-standard, so use it.

Because seq_printf output using %pI6 has a known
output style and shouldn't be changed to avoid
breaking user applications.