linux-kernel - Re: Printk mulitple line message support

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Message-ID: <1321328468.18124.2.camel@Joe-Laptop>
Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:41:08 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	William Douglas <william.r.douglas@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Printk mulitple line message support

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 10:59 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> For multiple part in one line.  I think the better solution may be to
> assemble them in a line buffer before real output to console to avoid
> interleaving.  Do you think so?

Hard to say yes for sure.  Immediacy has some value.

There are some downsides to preassembly in memory
constrained systems.

On the other hand, most uses of pr_cont don't create
very long lines.

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