linux-kernel - Re: printk regression?

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Message-Id: <200907020729.23976.lkml@morethan.org>
Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:29:21 -0500
From:	"Michael S. Zick" <lkml@...ethan.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: printk regression?

On Thu July 2 2009, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 21:23 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > >
> > > [   75.690022] <7>printing local APIC contents on CPU#0/0:
> > 
> > Yes. This is because the io_apic code should be fixed.
> > 
> > It does:
> > 
> > 	printk("\n" KERN_DEBUG "printing local APIC
> > 
> > and that "\n" at the beginning should just be deleted. The log-level 
> > should be at the beginning of the printk, not in the middle.
> 
> There's at least 72 of them:
> 
> $ grep -Pr --include=*.[ch] "\bprintk.*\\\n.*KERN_" *
> 

That should qualify it as a documented feature.  ;)
"To convert the log level marker into visible garbage, do..."

Mike
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