linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] WARN(): add a \n to the message printk

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Message-ID: <20090615071306.5656aaa0@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:13:06 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] WARN(): add a \n to the message printk

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:09:51 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > +	if (args) {
> >  		vprintk(args->fmt, args->args);
> > +		printk("\n");
> 
> What stops another printk occuring between those two ?
> 

absolutely nothing... and in that case you get what you get in a
million other places in the kernel; a bit of a mix.


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