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Date:   Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:41:24 -0400
From:   Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5whatever, now with typechecking] vsprintf: %pf(%p)
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 10:29:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 10:23 AM Kent Overstreet
> <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  - We need to be able to specify the pretty-printer function, and not just have
> >    one per type
> 
> I even showed you how toi do that, you just deleted it.
> 
> Anyway, I'm done with this discussion. I think this is all pointless.
> I think you are making things worse, you are making things more
> complex, and I don't think this is a direction we want to take things
> in.

Linus, I'm ok with this not working out. Really. Trying to do something
difficult and new _often_ ends up in the result being too complicated and ugly
to live.

But that doesn't mean I'm not going to try, and if it's an idea I think has
potential I'll keep trying because it often takes a couple attempts and a couple
rewrites.

Anyways, I've been listening to your feedback (and honestly pretty appreciative
of it, it beats the hell out of what I was getting on the list). I'm sorry if
you feel like I wasn't listening or taking into account _everything_ you had to
say, this is a problem I've been thinking about for quite some time and I've got
a number of constraints I'm trying to fit.

And I apologize, it looks like I did miss something - I went back and reread and
saw you also had pretty_fn() in your example. So sorry for skipping past that,
my bad.