From 31550a16a5d2af859e8a11839e8c6c6c9c92dfa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Shevchenko Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:40:27 -0700 Subject: vsprintf: add support of '%*ph[CDN]' There are many places in the kernel where the drivers print small buffers as a hex string. This patch adds a support of the variable width buffer to print it as a hex string with a delimiter. The idea came from Pavel Roskin here: http://www.digipedia.pl/usenet/thread/18835/17449/ Sample output of pr_info("buf[%d:%d] %*phC\n", from, len, len, &buf[from]); could be look like this: [ 0.726130] buf[51:8] e8:16:b6:ef:e3:74:45:6e [ 0.750736] buf[59:15] 31:81:b8:3f:35:49:06:ae:df:32:06:05:4a:af:55 [ 0.757602] buf[17:5] ac:16:d5:2c:ef Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/printk-formats.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/printk-formats.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt index d8d168fa79d6..7561d7ed8e11 100644 --- a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt @@ -53,6 +53,16 @@ Struct Resources: For printing struct resources. The 'R' and 'r' specifiers result in a printed resource with ('R') or without ('r') a decoded flags member. +Raw buffer as a hex string: + %*ph 00 01 02 ... 3f + %*phC 00:01:02: ... :3f + %*phD 00-01-02- ... -3f + %*phN 000102 ... 3f + + For printing a small buffers (up to 64 bytes long) as a hex string with + certain separator. For the larger buffers consider to use + print_hex_dump(). + MAC/FDDI addresses: %pM 00:01:02:03:04:05 -- cgit v1.2.3