On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 21:33 -0400, Brian Haley wrote:
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> Jens Rosenboom wrote:
> > Currently the output looks like 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001
> > which might be compacted to 2001:db8::1. The code to do this could be
> > adapted from inet_ntop in glibc, which would add about 80 lines to
> > lib/vsprintf.c. How do you guys value the tradeoff between more readable
> > logging and increased kernel size?
> > 
> > This was already mentioned in
> > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/11/25/4231684 but
> > noone seems to have taken up on it.
> 
> Anyways, can you try this patch, it's less than 40 new lines :)
> It might be good enough, but could probably use some help.

You'll need to invent a new %p qualifier type to allow
compressed representation.  Your patch will change current uses
with seq_<foo> output in net, which could break userspace.


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