Thread (40 messages) flat view 40 messages, 14 authors, 2008-07-22

Re: the printk problem

From: Jan Engelhardt <hidden>
Date: 2008-07-05 13:24:18
Also in: lkml

On Saturday 2008-07-05 14:52, Vegard Nossum wrote:
quoted
On Saturday 2008-07-05 00:01, Andrew Morton wrote:
quoted
We don't know how much interest there would be in churning NIPQUAD from
the net guys.  Interestingly, there's also %C (wint_t) which is a
32-bit quantity.  So we could just go and say "%C prints an ipv4
address" and be done with it.  But there's no way of doing that for
ipv6 addresses so things would become asymmetrical there.
       struct in6_addr src;
       printk("Source address: %p{ipv6}\n", &src);

How about %p{feature}?
Something like this?

+static char *custom_format(char *buf, char *end,
+	const char *fmt, unsigned int fmtlen, void *arg)
I'd use const void *arg here, so nobody gets the idea
that you could modify the argument while printing :)
+{
+	if (!strncmp(fmt, "sym", fmtlen)) {
+		char name[KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN];
+		int len;
+		int i;
+
+		len = sprint_symbol(name, (unsigned long) arg);
+		if (len < 0)
+			return buf;
+
+		i = 0;
+		while (i < len) {
+			if (buf < end)
+				*buf = name[i];
+			++buf;
+			++i;
+		}
+	}
And I assume it's then as simple as

	} else if (strncmp(fmt, "nip6", fmtlen) == 0) {
		snprintf(buf, end - buf (+1?), NIP6_FMT in expanded form,
		         NIP6 in expanded form(arg));
	}

Hm, that's going to get a big function when everyone adds their
fmttypes.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+
+	return buf;
+}
+
static char *number(char *buf, char *end, unsigned long long num, int base, int size, int precision, int type)
{
	/* we are called with base 8, 10 or 16, only, thus don't need "G..."  */
@@ -648,6 +673,25 @@ int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
				continue;

			case 'p':
+				if (fmt[1] == '{') {
+					const char *cfmt;
+
+					/* Skip the '%{' */
+					++fmt;
+					++fmt;
+
Not this?

	/* Skip the '%p{' */
	fmt += 3;
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