On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 14:09 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 13:59:30 -0800 Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There are use cases for dumping buffers with specific endian types > > for 2, 4, and 8 byte variables in arrays. > > > > Add an enum for DUMP_TYPE_(LE|BE|CPU) to enable emitting them as such. > > > > Rename groupsize to groupflags in the functions and add documentation > > to the kernel-doc to describe the use of the DUMP_TYPE_ enum. > > What are these use cases?
Buffers that contain LE or BE arrays that want to be emitted by print_hex_dump. > Will patches be forthcoming to convert them? Sure, after a settling period for Masahiro's patch to be applied upstream. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/8/480 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
