Re: [PATCH v5 09/11] lib/vsprintf: OF nodes are first and foremost, struct device_nodes

[Sakari Ailus]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 02:28:00PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 11:28:16AM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > On Tue 2019-09-03 10:52:33, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > On Mon 2019-09-02 16:57:30, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > > > Factor out static kobject_string() function that simply calls
> > > > device_node_string(), and thus remove references to kobjects (as these are
> > > > struct device_node).
> 
> > > > -		return kobject_string(buf, end, ptr, spec, fmt);
> > > > +		return device_node_string(buf, end, ptr, spec, fmt + 1);
> > > 
> > > I know that this come from from kobject_string(). But please, modify
> > > it to follow the style used by other %p modifiers. I mean to pass
> > > "fmt" as is and then use:
> > > 
> > > 	if (fmt[1] != 'F')
> > 
> > Ah, I see that it would need more changes in device_node_string().
> > OK, let's leave the patch as is. I am sorry for the noise.
> 
> I came to the same conclusions, though can we consider to drop this patch?

It's a cleanup. I'd prefer to keep the patch.

Albeit fmt++; in device_node_string() would do the trick of avoiding fmt +
1 in the caller. That said, I'd prefer to keep the original patch as-is.

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