> -----Original Message----- > From: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, 12 April 2019 11:48 PM > To: Alastair D'Silva <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; Jani Nikula <[email protected]>; Joonas > Lahtinen <[email protected]>; Rodrigo Vivi > <[email protected]>; David Airlie <[email protected]>; Daniel Vetter > <[email protected]>; Karsten Keil <[email protected]>; Jassi Brar > <[email protected]>; Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>; > David S. Miller <[email protected]>; Jose Abreu > <[email protected]>; Kalle Valo <[email protected]>; > Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>; Benson Leung > <[email protected]>; Enric Balletbo i Serra > <[email protected]>; James E.J. Bottomley > <[email protected]>; Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>; > Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>; Alexander Viro > <[email protected]>; Sergey Senozhatsky > <[email protected]>; Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>; > Andrew Morton <[email protected]>; intel- > [email protected]; [email protected]; linux- > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; linux- > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] lib/hexdump.c: Allow 64 bytes per line > > On Wed 2019-04-10 13:17:17, Alastair D'Silva wrote: > > From: Alastair D'Silva <[email protected]> > > > > With modern high resolution screens, we can display more data, which > > makes life a bit easier when debugging. > > I have quite some doubts about this feature. > > We are talking about more than 256 characters per-line. I wonder if such a > long line is really easier to read for a human.
It's basically 2 separate panes of information side by side, the hexdump and the ASCII version. I'm using this myself when dealing with the pmem labels, and it works quite nicely. > > I am not expert but there is a reason why the standard is 80 characters per- > line. I guess that anything above 100 characters is questionable. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length > somehow confirms that. > > Second, if we take 8 pixels per-character. Then we need > 2048 to show the 256 characters. It is more than HD. > IMHO, there is still huge number of people that even do not have HD display, > especially on a notebook. The intent is to make debugging easier when dealing with large chunks of binary data. I don't expect end users to see this output. -- Alastair D'Silva mob: 0423 762 819 skype: alastair_dsilva msn: [email protected] blog: http://alastair.d-silva.org Twitter: @EvilDeece _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
