Re: [PATCH v2] vsprintf: introduce %dE for error constants

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Aug 27 2019 - 17:22:16 EST


On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 23:12 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The new format specifier %dE introduced with this patch pretty-prints
> the typical negative error values. So
>
> pr_info("probing failed (%dE)\n", ret);
>
> yields
>
> probing failed (EIO)
>
> if ret holds -EIO. This is easier to understand than the for now common
>
> probing failed (-5)

I suggest using both outputs like '-5 -EIO'
rather than a single string