From:   "Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@d-silva.org>
To:     "'David Laight'" <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
        "'Alastair D'Silva'" <alastair@au1.ibm.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/4] lib/hexdump.c: Allow multiple groups to be separated by lines '|'
Date:   Wed, 10 Apr 2019 19:52:58 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2019 6:45 PM
> To: 'Alastair D'Silva' <alastair@au1.ibm.com>; alastair@d-silva.org
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>; Joonas Lahtinen
> <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>; Rodrigo Vivi =
<rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>;
> David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>; Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>; =
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> <isdn@linux-pingi.de>; Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>; Tom =
Lendacky
> <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>; David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>;
> Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com>; Kalle Valo
> <kvalo@codeaurora.org>; Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>;
> Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>; Enric Balletbo i Serra
> <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>; James E.J. Bottomley
> <jejb@linux.ibm.com>; Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>;
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>; Alexander Viro
> <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>; Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>; Sergey
> Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>; Steven Rostedt
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> Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/4] lib/hexdump.c: Allow multiple groups to be
> separated by lines '|'
>=20
> From: Alastair D'Silva
> > Sent: 10 April 2019 04:17
> > With the wider display format, it can become hard to identify how =
many
> > bytes into the line you are looking at.
> >
> > The patch adds new flags to hex_dump_to_buffer() and
> print_hex_dump()
> > to print vertical lines to separate every N groups of bytes.
> >
> > eg.
> > buf:00000000: 454d414e 43415053|4e495f45 00584544
> NAMESPAC|E_INDEX.
> > buf:00000010: 00000000 00000002|00000000 00000000  ........|........
>=20
> Ugg, that is just horrid.
> It is enough to add an extra space if you really need the columns to =
be more
> easily counted.
>

I did consider that, but it would be a more invasive change, as the =
buffer length required would differ based on the flags.
=20
> I'm not even sure that is needed if you are printing 32bit words.
> OTOH 32bit words makes 64bit values really stupid on LE systems.
> Bytes with extra spaces every 4 bytes is the format I prefer even for =
long
> lines.
>=20
> Oh, and if you are using hexdump() a lot you want a version that never =
uses
> snprintf().
>=20
> 	David
>=20
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