[dpdk-dev] [v1, 1/3] telemetry: enable storing pointer value

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 08:55:35PM +0530, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan wrote:
> At present, value of pointer variable or address can only be
> stored in u64 type which is slightly not human readable, hence
> this patch is. It adds telemetry support to store pointer value,
> which is stringified.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gmuthukrishn at marvell.com>
> ---

I'm a little curious as to the usefulness of having a pointer value in
telemetry output? How would a telemetry user be expected to use pointer
information returned? Printing pointers seems something more useful for a
debugging or tracing interface than a telemetry one.

Regards,
/Bruce