From: Alastair D'Silva
Apologies for the large CC list, it's a heads up for those responsible
for subsystems where a prototype change in generic code causes a change
in those subsystems.
This series enhances hexdump.
These improve the readability of the dumped data in certain situ
From: Alastair D'Silva
With the wider display format, it can become hard to identify how many
bytes into the line you are looking at.
The patch adds new flags to hex_dump_to_buffer() and print_hex_dump() to
print vertical lines to separate every N groups of bytes.
eg.
buf:: 454
From: Alastair D'Silva
In order to support additional features in hex_dump_to_buffer, replace
the ascii bool parameter with flags.
Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva
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drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c| 2 +-
drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/mISDNisar.c
From: Alastair D'Silva
The overflow tests did not account for the situation where no
overflow occurs and len < rowsize.
This patch renames the cryptic variables and accounts for the
above case.
The selftests now pass.
Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva
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lib/test_h
From: Alastair D'Silva
This patch removes the hardcoded row limits and allows for
other lengths. These lengths must still be a multiple of
groupsize.
This allows structs that are not 16/32 bytes to display on
a single line.
This patch also expands the self-tests to test row sizes
up
From: Alastair D'Silva
Some buffers may only be partially filled with useful data, while the rest
is padded (typically with 0x00 or 0xff).
This patch introduces a flag to allow the supression of lines of repeated
bytes, which are replaced with '** Skipped %u bytes of value 0x%x **&#
From: Alastair D'Silva
Similar to the previous patch, this patch separates groups by 2 spaces for
the hex fields, and 1 space for the ASCII field.
eg.
buf:: 454d414e 43415053 4e495f45 00584544 NAMESPAC E_INDEX.
buf:0010: 0002 000
From: Alastair D'Silva
The behaviour of hexdump groups is to print the data out as if
it was a native-endian number.
This patch tweaks the documentation to make this clear, and also
adds the HEXDUMP_RETAIN_BYTE_ORDER flag to allow groups of
multiple bytes to be printed without affectin
