Re: [PATCH] print_hex_dump: use %px when using DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Wed Sep 16 2020 - 19:53:02 EST


On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 7:23 AM Roman Fietze <roman.fietze@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This function is mainly used for debugging. But for that purpose the
> hashed memory address of the dumped data provides no useful
> information at all.
>
> Note: There are only very few locations in the kernel, where
> print_hex_dump is not used with KERN_DEBUG and DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Fietze <roman.fietze@xxxxxxxxx>

Is this patch going to get picked up? I was hoping it would be in 5.9.