Re: [PATCH v1 04/25] lib/vsprintf: Print time and date in human readable format via %pt

From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 04/25] lib/vsprintf: Print time and date in human readable format via %pt
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 21:49:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75VcJZS+x8KdBs0nQj_sq9yx23gx3NBP_AqGi0xU+AqEDwQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170608184154.y7tqsv7ghpbcbf77@piout.net>

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On 08/06/2017 at 20:57:05 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Alexandre Belloni
>> <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:

>> > I understand this may not fit your debugging needs but what about pretty
>> > printing time64_t and using rtc_tm_to_time64?
>>
>> There are two downsides as I can see:
>> 1) conversion to and from just for that;
>
> Those are almost all debug messages, I would be fine with that.

Yeah, but the problem is to pass the reference. All dances around will
uglify the code.
(Obviously we can't pass timespec64/time64_t or anything longer than
32 bits as is in %p extension)

>> 2) if you look closer to the patches rtc-* you may find cases where
>> wday is also printed so, struct rtc_time still will be in use.

> (And you missed two in rtc-mcp795.c). Honestly, nobody cares about wday,
> you may as well leave it out.

Oops, thanks, indeed. Okay, I will leave it for now with dropped wday
until someone comes with strong opinion why it should be there.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko