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Date:	Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:54:50 +0200
From:	"Jan H. Schönherr" <schnhrr@...tu-berlin.de>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: drop ambiguous LOG_CONT flag

Am 08.10.2012 21:24, schrieb Kay Sievers:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:49 PM, "Jan H. Schönherr"
> 
>>> Given that I'm able to fix the racing case, would you be in favor of
>>> this approach, or should we stick to the earlier version?
>>
>> I'm open to everything that makes sense. Let's see how it looks and we
>> can decide when we have something that passes the tests.
> 
> Jan,
> any updates, did you try something else?
> Or should we merge the first version for now?

I'm working on it, though I cannot spend as much time as I want. :)

My current version does mostly well for race-printk()s, now. But
there's still one issue to resolve and some polishing to do.

If we can afford to wait a little longer, we might get a nicer
solution (and avoid a possible mostly-revert later).

Regards
Jan

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