linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer

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Date:	Tue, 08 May 2012 21:06:56 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@...ah.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to
 variable-length record buffer

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 20:52 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org> wrote:
> > Yeah, we need to make sure, we never merge the (always racy)
> > continuation printk() users with (non-racy) non-continuation users.
> > Therefore KERN_CONT is required to suppress the newline and to merge the
> > content with the earlier non-newline-terminated printk() line.
> 
> Please don't go adding ugly KERN_CONT when
> there really isn't any reason for it. Just fix the printk code you
> broke.

Thanks for making that clear.

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