Re: [PATCH 1/2 v5] regmap: Support accelerated noinc operations

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 03:53:15PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 6:36 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 10:48:31PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:

...

> > > +             dev_info(map->dev, "%x %s [", reg, write ? "<=" : "=>");
> > > +             for (i = 0; i < val_len; i++) {
> > > +                     switch (val_bytes) {
> > > +                     case 1:
> > > +                             pr_cont("%x", u8p[i]);
> > > +                             break;
> > > +                     case 2:
> > > +                             pr_cont("%x", u16p[i]);
> > > +                             break;
> > > +                     case 4:
> > > +                             pr_cont("%x", u32p[i]);
> > > +                             break;
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> > > +                     case 8:
> > > +                             pr_cont("%llx", u64p[i]);
> > > +                             break;
> > > +#endif
> > > +                     default:
> > > +                             break;
> > > +                     }
> > > +                     if (i == (val_len - 1))
> > > +                             pr_cont("]\n");
> > > +                     else
> > > +                             pr_cont(",");
> > > +             }
> >
> > I'm wondering why we can't use hex_dump_to_buffer() approach? Or even better,
> > introduce eventually dev_hex_dump() (as it's done for seq_file and printk)
> > and use it.
> 
> Hmmmmm this is under regmap_should_log() which turns on
> dev_info() simple prints like x <= y and y => x to the console.
> e.g. dev_info(map->dev, "%x <= %x\n", reg, val);
> It would be rather print_hex_dump() the problem being
> that hex_dump_* accessors assumes line oriented
> linebufs "must be 16 or 32" (values per line), and here we probably
> don't want that:
> we want to show what we shoehorned into the FIFO.

Perhaps we may add a modifier to %ph (like 2,4,8) to group together several
bytes and use it here instead?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko