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SubjectRe: [PATCH] lib/hexdump
On Wed, 2 May 2007 16:06:35 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Wed, 02 May 2007 15:56:48 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2 May 2007 15:35:56 -0700
> > > Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> > >>
> > >> Based on ace_dump_mem() from Grant Likely for the Xilinx
> > >> SystemACE CompactFlash interface.
> > >>
> > >> Add hex_dumper() to lib/hexdump.c and linux/kernel.h.
> > >>
> > >> This patch adds the function 'hex_dumper' which can be used to perform a
> > >> hex + ASCII dump of data to syslog, in an easily viewable format, thus
> > >> providing a common text hex dump format.
> > >>
> > >> It does not provide a hexdump_to_buffer() function.
> > >> if someone needs that, we'll have to add it.
> > >>
> > >> Example usage:
> > >> hex_dumper(KERN_DEBUG, data, length);
> > >>
> > >
> > > Fair enough. This is the sort of thing one could easily overdesign ;)
> >
> > The Intel version also returned the number of bytes printed.
> > and they had a hexdump_to_buffer() for sysfs output.
> >
>
> Yeah, that's where we get into creature feeping. Really it should be
> passed the address of a function which performs the per-char output and
> which is passed a bunch of args so it can do its stuff. But doing printk
> of a single char at a time is a bit inefficient and produces mangled output
> on SMP. And then we don't know the length of the output and we'd like it
> dynamically allocated and on and on.
>
> Ho hum. Perhaps a middle ground is to implement hexdump-to-memory as the
> core function. hex_dumper() becomes a simple wrapper around that. (but
> how big is its buffer? One line would be OK, I guess)

Yeah, I almost did it that way. We'll see.

> > OK, that's one way to do it. I'll wait a bit for other comments.
>
> Good luck ;)

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~Randy
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