linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Add a warning for log messages that don't end in a new line

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Date:   Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:35:26 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Add a warning for log messages that
 don't end in a new line

On Sun, 2017-11-26 at 19:17 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> I just assume that a printk that has no KERN_ is adding a
> newline, which is my understanding of Joe's comment.

More precisely:

Any printk without an initial KERN_CONT prepends a newline
if the last printk content char emitted that is not part
of a printk timestamp/header was not a newline.