linux-kernel - Re: VT console need rewrite (fwd)

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Date:	Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:01:20 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
To:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: VT console need rewrite (fwd)

> > Yes. These days kernel sources and kernel messages both contain
> > non-ASCII characters... as well as many filesystems.
> 
> But not in kernel printed messages.

Even in kernel messages.

               "   ,
On OLPC, I see "CAFE NAND ...: corrected 1 symbol errors"

(old/vendor kernel, through).

It still has:

MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NAND flash driver for OLPC CAFĂ chip");

Aha, yes, bug is there even in new kernel:

static struct pci_driver cafe_nand_pci_driver = {
        .name = "CAFĂ NAND",
        .id_table = cafe_nand_tbl,
        .probe = cafe_nand_probe,
        .remove = __devexit_p(cafe_nand_remove),
        .resume = cafe_nand_resume,
};

That pci_driver.name does leak into
kmsg. ./drivers/mtd/nand/cafe_nand.c . I complained about it before...

									Pavel
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