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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: jffs2: Remove utf8 from printk string
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 14:27:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1423232860.26461.93.camel@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1423232343-26438-1-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

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On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 15:19 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> Any non-ascii characters are escaped before being show to user-space,
> so this shows up as
> 
> jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) \xffffffc2\xffffffa9\xffffffa9 2001-2006
> Red Hat, Inc.
> 
> (I have no idea why the second byte is repeated.) Replace with a
> widely used ascii replacement.

Nah. Fix the bug, don't apply a crappy workaround. This is the 21st
century.

> Actually, I don't see the value in printing a copyright notice to the
> kernel log, especially since it's out-of-sync with the one at the top
> of the file.

Agreed. Removing it would be better than the crappy workaround. But
let's use it as a test case to fix the *real* bug first.

-- 
dwmw2

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-02-06 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-06 14:19 Rasmus Villemoes
2015-02-06 14:27 ` David Woodhouse [this message]

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