linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] printk: drop ambiguous LOG

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Message-ID: <506382B0.8040908@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:33:20 +0200
From:	"Jan H. Schönherr" 
	<schnhrr@...tu-berlin.de>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: drop ambiguous LOG_CONT flag

Am 26.09.2012 23:15, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 07:58:45PM +0200, Jan H. Schönherr wrote:
>> Against v3.6-rc7, only lightly tested.
> 
> Well, against linux-next and highly tested would be best.  It's a bit
> late to get this into linux-next for 3.7, how important is it really?

There are no conflicting commits in linux-next, so it should apply there
as well.

"Tested" as in: it fixes my use case: multiple printk()s shortly after each
other -- with KERN_prefix but without a newline at the end. Those were
sometimes concatenated since that printk-rewrite.

All other printk()s that I come across more often look as usual, before and
after the patch. (Mostly singular printk()s, but I also checked the output
from the oom-killer.)

There is no need to include this hastily -- at least not from my point of view
-- as it is already broken in 3.5 and nobody else seems to notice it
(... and I have now a fix for my development printk()s). Should I resend the
patch later?

I was also hoping that Kay might share his opinion, as the LOG_CONT
flag is rather young, and he might have some different plans for it.

(And of course, some more testing wouldn't hurt.)

Regards
Jan

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