Re: [RFC] solution for the inet_ntoa problem, buffer allocator

From: Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2000 - 10:19:22 EST


On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Olaf Titz wrote:

> Ideally, we would be able to do something like:
> printk(KERN_DEBUG "foo: src=%s dst=%s\n", inet_ntoa(src), inet_ntoa(dst));

Wouldn't it be better to just teach vsprintf about addresses? This saves
casting code all over the place. Then we have the much simpler:

  printk(KERN_DEBUG "foo: src=%a dst=%a\n", src, dst);

We could use 'A' for v6 addresses..

ps: vsprintf is a bit of a mess

Completely untested demonstration patch:

--- vsprintf.c Sun Jun 18 15:49:06 2000
+++ /home/oxymoron/vsprintf.c Wed Jul 5 09:59:23 2000
@@ -240,11 +240,27 @@
                                 field_width = 2*sizeof(void *);
                                 flags |= ZEROPAD;
                         }
                         str = number(str,
                                 (unsigned long) va_arg(args, void *), 16,
                                 field_width, precision, flags);
                         continue;
 
+ case 'a':
+ s=(const char *)va_args(args, __u32);
+
+ str = number(str, s[0]&255, 10,
+ field_width, precision, flags);
+ *str++ = '.'
+ str = number(str, s[1]&255, 10,
+ field_width, precision, flags);
+ *str++ = '.'
+ str = number(str, s[2]&255, 10,
+ field_width, precision, flags);
+ *str++ = '.'
+ str = number(str, s[3]&255, 10,
+ field_width, precision, flags);
+
+ continue;
 
                 case 'n':
                         if (qualifier == 'l') {

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