From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755457Ab2F2Oyc (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:54:32 -0400 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:51489 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752823Ab2F2Oyb (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:54:31 -0400 Message-ID: <1340981670.6562.25.camel@joe2Laptop> Subject: Re: [RFC] vsprintf: Add %pb[1-64] specifier to print hex memory dump From: Joe Perches To: Andrei Emeltchenko Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:54:30 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1340979104-19377-1-git-send-email-Andrei.Emeltchenko.news@gmail.com> References: <1340979104-19377-1-git-send-email-Andrei.Emeltchenko.news@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 17:11 +0300, Andrei Emeltchenko wrote: > From: Andrei Emeltchenko > > Add new specifier which may be used to print 1-64 bytes of memory. > There is often a need to print small (up to 64 bytes) objects like > bluetooth keys in debug purposes. Currently we have to create special > function for that. print_hex_dump() ?