Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 00/25] lib, rtc: Print rtc_time via %pt[dt][rv] | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:55:23 +0300 |
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On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 10:50 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 16:47 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > Recently I have noticed too many users of struct rtc_time that > > printing > > its content field by field. > > > > In this series I introduce %pt[dt][rv] specifier to make life a bit > > easier. > > Hey Andy. > > I just saw a patch with a printk for rtc time from Mark Salyzyn. > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/18/885
Same!
> Any idea if you want to push this extension?
Yes, just really lack of time for everything.
I like the idea to make it conditional (config BLABLABLA). It will address some comments about footprint for no users.
> I like the concept and still think it could be extended a bit more. > > from: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/8/1134 > > My preference would be for %pt[type]<output style> > where <type> is mandatory and could be: > > r for struct rtc_time > 6 for time64_t > k for ktime_t > T for struct timespec64 > etc
I dunno about this.
However, I like this more than do conversion in each case where input reference has different type.
> and <output style> has an unspecified default of > YYYY-MM-DD:hh:mm:ss
I'm against this, sorry. Too many variations for almost no use (users).
> Perhaps use the "date" formats without the leading > % uses for <output style> for additional styles.
-- Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Intel Finland Oy
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