linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove multiple KERN

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Date:	Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:33:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove multiple KERN_ prefixes from printk formats



On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE
> > -       printk(KERN_EMERG "\n" KERN_EMERG "Double Fault\n");
> > +       printk(KERN_EMERG "Double Fault\n");
> 
> dropped a newline.  we've largely made sure the newlines and such were
> as we want in the output ... in this case, it is not a matter of
> adding a newline where one did not exist before

Note that the 'printk' itself will add a required newline these days.

So unless you want an _empty_ line due to an earlier '\n', the change is 
correct.

If you do want the empty line, it should looke like

	printk(KERN_EMERG "\nDouble Fault\n");

but I suspect that you had the '\n' there because you had a previous 
printk which hadn't ended the line (in which case just removing it and 
relying on the KERN_EMERG causing a line break is the right thing to do).

		Linus
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