Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] lib/vsprintf: Replace custom spec to print decimals with generic one

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Jul 31 2020 - 16:48:13 EST


On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:20:21 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 21:08 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > When printing phandle via %pOFp the custom spec is used. First of all,
> > it has a SMALL flag which makes no sense for decimal numbers. Second,
> > we have already default spec for decimal numbers. Use the latter in
> > the %pOFp case as well.
> []
> > diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
> []
> > @@ -1979,12 +1979,6 @@ char *device_node_string(char *buf, char *end, struct device_node *dn,
> > char *buf_start = buf;
> > struct property *prop;
> > bool has_mult, pass;
> > - static const struct printf_spec num_spec = {
> > - .flags = SMALL,
> > - .field_width = -1,
> > - .precision = -1,
> > - .base = 10,
> > - };
> >
> > struct printf_spec str_spec = spec;
> > str_spec.field_width = -1;
> > @@ -2024,7 +2018,7 @@ char *device_node_string(char *buf, char *end, struct device_node *dn,
> > str_spec.precision = precision;
> > break;
> > case 'p': /* phandle */
> > - buf = number(buf, end, (unsigned int)dn->phandle, num_spec);
> > + buf = number(buf, end, (unsigned int)dn->phandle, default_dec_spec);
>
> Could changing .precision = -1 to 0 change any output?
>

static const struct printf_spec default_dec_spec = {
.base = 10,
.precision = -1,
};


It's the field_width that changes from -1 to 0, which shouldn't cause
any issue.

-- Steve