From ba1835eb30a80a0e8a1c33724735f3a99a957cff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Uwe=20Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:49:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] vsprintf: make comment about vs{n,cn,}printf more
understandable
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"You probably want ... instead." sounds like a recommendation better
not to use the v... functions.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
---
lib/vsprintf.c | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index d3023df8477f6..bba9caa375d02 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -1301,8 +1301,7 @@ int format_decode(const char *fmt, struct printf_spec *spec)
* return is greater than or equal to @size, the resulting
* string is truncated.
*
- * Call this function if you are already dealing with a va_list.
- * You probably want snprintf() instead.
+ * If you're not already dealing with a va_list consider using snprintf().
*/
int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
{
@@ -1476,8 +1475,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vsnprintf);
* the @buf not including the trailing '\0'. If @size is == 0 the function
* returns 0.
*
- * Call this function if you are already dealing with a va_list.
- * You probably want scnprintf() instead.
+ * If you're not already dealing with a va_list consider using scnprintf().
*
* See the vsnprintf() documentation for format string extensions over C99.
*/
@@ -1556,8 +1554,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(scnprintf);
* into @buf. Use vsnprintf() or vscnprintf() in order to avoid
* buffer overflows.
*
- * Call this function if you are already dealing with a va_list.
- * You probably want sprintf() instead.
+ * If you're not already dealing with a va_list consider using sprintf().
*
* See the vsnprintf() documentation for format string extensions over C99.
*/
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