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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches•com>
To: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <gvaradar@cisco•com>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org, benve@cisco•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] enic: use kasprintf instead of snprintf
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 22:59:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1497851952.8495.42.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.20.1706182248450.15793@cae-iprp-alln-lb.cisco.com>

On Sun, 2017-06-18 at 22:55 -0700, Govindarajulu Varadarajan wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2017, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps it'd be better to use a style
> > with a variable length format precision
> > 
> > ie:
> > 
> > 	"%.*s-tx-%u", IFNAMSIZ - 4 - <something>, netdev-name, i)
> > 
> 
> This would truncate interface name. Why is this preferred to my patch?

no allocation required, simpler.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-19  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-19  5:05 [PATCH net-next] enic: use kasprintf instead of snprintf Govindarajulu Varadarajan
2017-06-19  5:40 ` Joe Perches
2017-06-19  5:55   ` Govindarajulu Varadarajan
2017-06-19  5:59     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-06-19 14:27 ` David Miller

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