On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:55:47AM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> To make logs more readable prefix all hex values with '0x' mark.
> This is needed for consistency too, as a lot of hex values are already
> prefixed with '0x'. Also, bring all hex outputs to the common form -
> use '%#', not '0x%'.
> 
> This patch is done by two commands:
> find . -name trace-events | \
>  xargs sed -i 's/%\([-+ 
> *.0-9]*\([hljztL]\|ll\|hh\)\?\(x\|X\|"\s*PRIx\)\)/%#\1/g'
> find . -name trace-events | xargs sed -i 's/0x%#/%#/g'

I fear that despite your cleanup, these mistakes will be frequently
re-introduced.  IOW, I think you should add to scripts/checkpatch.pl
to re-validate any patch which touches a trace-events file, to
prevent further regressions.

> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsement...@virtuozzo.com>
> ---
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> It is hard to read logs, when there are hex and dec numbers in one line, when
> hex number doesn't contain any letters and don't have '0x' prefix. Hope I'm
> not alone who is not comfortable with it, so, what about a patch like this?
> May be regexp's should be improved but, I think, the common idea is clear.

Yeah, I agree - mixing decimal & hex values with no 0x prefix is horribly
misleading at best.



Regards,
Daniel
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