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Subject: Re: [PATCH] printf: add support for printing symbolic error codes
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On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 23:46 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> It has been suggested several times to extend vsnprintf() to be able
> to convert the numeric value of ENOSPC to print "ENOSPC". This is yet
> another attempt. Rather than adding another %p extension, simply teach
> plain %p to convert ERR_PTRs. While the primary use case is

Thanks, this all this seems reasonable except for

> diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
[]
> @@ -2178,8 +2204,6 @@ char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
>  		return flags_string(buf, end, ptr, spec, fmt);
>  	case 'O':
>  		return kobject_string(buf, end, ptr, spec, fmt);
> -	case 'x':
> -		return pointer_string(buf, end, ptr, spec);
>  	}
>  
>  	/* default is to _not_ leak addresses, hash before printing */

why remove this?