On Mon, Oct 4, 2021, at 13:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 11:55 AM Wolfram Sang <w...@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > i2c-8 i2c PA Semi SMBus adapter at 0x(____ptrval____) I2C
>> > adapter
>> > i2c-9 i2c PA Semi SMBus adapter at 0x(____ptrval____) I2C
>> > adapter
>> > i2c-10 i2c PA Semi SMBus adapter at 0x(____ptrval____)
>> > I2C adapter
>>
>> As Sven correctly switched from %lx to %p, this is intended behaviour.
>> Run 'i2cdetect' as root to see the values again.
>
> I think the address could just get removed here, as this is clearly not
> helpful.
> port number, which is somewhat useful for identifying the device, now
> it's either the pointless string, or the virtual address that the
> device is mapped
> to, which is not helpful either and potentially leaks information about kernel
> internal structures.
Yeah, now that I'm looking at it again it doesn't make much sense to
include it there. Maybe just dev_name(smbus->dev) instead of the address?
Sven
