Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755324Ab0KWQM6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:12:58 -0500 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:59569 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753865Ab0KWQM5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:12:57 -0500 From: =?UTF-8?q?Uwe=20Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: trivial@kernel.org, Steven Rostedt , Will Schmidt Subject: [PATCH] trivial: make comment about vs{n,cn,}printf more understandable Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:12:45 +0100 Message-Id: <1290528765-25057-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.2.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:215:17ff:fe12:23b0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1824 Lines: 50 "You probably want ... instead." sounds like a recommendation better not to use the v... functions. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König --- lib/vsprintf.c | 9 +++------ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c index c150d3d..ec43171 100644 --- a/lib/vsprintf.c +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c @@ -1279,8 +1279,7 @@ qualifier: * return is greater than or equal to @size, the resulting * string is truncated. * - * Call this function if you are already dealing with a va_list. - * You probably want snprintf() instead. + * If you're not already dealing with a va_list better use snprintf(). */ int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args) { @@ -1454,8 +1453,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vsnprintf); * the @buf not including the trailing '\0'. If @size is <= 0 the function * returns 0. * - * Call this function if you are already dealing with a va_list. - * You probably want scnprintf() instead. + * If you're not already dealing with a va_list better use scnprintf(). * * See the vsnprintf() documentation for format string extensions over C99. */ @@ -1534,8 +1532,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(scnprintf); * into @buf. Use vsnprintf() or vscnprintf() in order to avoid * buffer overflows. * - * Call this function if you are already dealing with a va_list. - * You probably want sprintf() instead. + * If you're not already dealing with a va_list better use sprintf(). * * See the vsnprintf() documentation for format string extensions over C99. */ -- 1.7.2.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/