On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 22:01 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

On Tue, 2019-06-25 at 13:17 +1000, Alastair D'Silva wrote:

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From: Alastair D'Silva <redacted>

Apologies for the large CC list, it's a heads up for those
responsible
for subsystems where a prototype change in generic code causes a
change
in those subsystems.

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The default behaviour of hexdump is unchanged, however, the
prototype
for hex_dump_to_buffer() has changed, and print_hex_dump() has been
renamed to print_hex_dump_ext(), with a wrapper replacing it for
compatibility with existing code, which would have been too
invasive to
change.

I believe this cover letter is misleading.

The point of the wrapper is to avoid unnecessary changes
in existing
code.

The wrapper is for print_hex_dump(), which has many callers.

The changes to existing code are for hex_dump_to_buffer(), which is
called in relatively few places.

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