Re: [PATCH v10] mmc: Export host capabilities to debugfs.

From: Ulf Hansson
Date: Thu Mar 15 2018 - 08:29:39 EST


On 15 March 2018 at 11:26, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 11:12 +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> On 13 March 2018 at 06:10, Harish Jenny K N <harish_kandiga@xxxxxxxxxx
>> > wrote:
>> >
>
>> Honestly, I don't like this, but maybe other people do, then I am fine
>> with this approach.
>>
>> If were to decide, I would just rather print the caps field in a
>> hexadecimal bit form and leave the translation to the user.
>
> A compromise would be to print both:
>
> 0xHHHHHHHH\n
> Description of each enabled field, one per line
>
>
> Another format would be:
>
> Bit XX: Description of a field

If we were to print the description, there is no point in printing the
bits in hex. Or is it?

As I said, if you and other folkz thinks this is valuable, then I am
fine as well. Just saying, it's not my preferred option.

Kind regards
Uffe