Re: [PATCH v4 5/9] vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string()

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, 2018-04-04 at 10:58 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Move the non-trivial code from the long pointer() function. We are
> going
> to add a check for the access to the address that will make it even
> more
> complicated.
> 
> Also it is better to warn about unknown specifier instead of falling
> back to the %p behavior. It will help people to understand what is
> going wrong. They expect the IP address and not a pointer anyway
> in this situation.

> +	WARN_ONCE(1, "Unsupported pointer format specifier:
> %%p%c%c\n",
> +		  fmt[0], fmt[1]);
> 

I think WARN is too much here.

pr_warn_once() ?


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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy