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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Hexdump Enhancements
From:   "Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@d-silva.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 09:31 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 12:04 +1000, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> > From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> > 
> > Apologies for the large CC list, it's a heads up for those
> > responsible
> > for subsystems where a prototype change in generic code causes a
> > change
> > in those subsystems.
> > 
> > This series enhances hexdump.
> 
> Still not a fan of these patches.

I'm afraid there's not too much action I can take on that, I'm happy to
address specific issues though.

> 
> > These improve the readability of the dumped data in certain
> > situations
> > (eg. wide terminals are available, many lines of empty bytes exist,
> > etc).
> 
> Changing hexdump's last argument from bool to int is odd.
> 

Think of it as replacing a single boolean with many booleans.

> Perhaps a new function should be added instead of changing
> the existing hexdump.
> 

There's only a handful of consumers, I don't think there is a value-add 
in creating more wrappers vs updating the existing callers.

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