From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jens Rosenboom <jens@mcbone.net>
Cc: Linux Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: Change %pI6 format to output compacted addresses?
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:18:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090813141840.GA25935@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250091560.6641.48.camel@fnki-nb00130>
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:39:20PM +0200, 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?
A little note: if you borrow code from glibc always make sure it's from
an old enough version that is still GPLv2+ licensed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-13 14:18 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
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 [this message]
2009-08-13 14:30 ` Jens Rosenboom
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