Re: [PATCH v2] input: synaptics-rmi4 - use snprintf instead of sprintf in rmi_i2c.c

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 01:23:37PM -0800, Christopher Heiny wrote:

On 01/09/2014 12:04 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

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On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 05:18:39PM -0800, Christopher Heiny wrote:

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This is a trivial change to replace the sprintf loop with snprintf using
up-to-date format capability.

Hmm, how about we do this instead:

Input: synaptics-rmi4 - clean up debug handling in rmi_i2c

From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Kernel now has standard facility to format and print binary buffers, let's
use it. By doing so we no longer need to allocate memory for debug buffers
and we can let debugfs code go as well.

Not sure where to put this comment, so I'll drop it here.

I agree the buffers can go.  I realized that on the drive home last
night, but was too tired to follow up.

Talking with some of the folks who use this feature, there's a
desire to keep some sort of finer control on whether the comms
buffers are printed or not - either the existing debugfs setup
(preferred, since it lets them turn on the dmesg clutter only when
needed), or by converting to a config option such as
CONFIG_RMI4_COMMS_DEBUG.  It's very useful in new platform
development, since there's a surprising number of ways in which the
reads and writes can go wonky on new hardware.

That is why you have CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG: you can activate these debug
statements at will using the common kernel mechanisms.

Or we could convert them to dev_vdbg() and then it will be just a tiny
transport module recompile with DEBUG defined.

Thanks,

-- 
Dmitry