linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] printk() fixes, optimizations, and clean ups

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Message-ID: <1354848669.22463.23.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:51:10 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jan H.Schönherr <schnhrr@...tu-berlin.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] printk() fixes, optimizations, and clean ups

On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 16:19 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:37:30 -0800
> Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > Can you please pick this up for -next now and I'll
> > redo my patches against -next for -rc1 so I'm not
> > delayed until 3.9?
> 
> It would be better to do things in the other order.
> 
> a) Your patches perform mainly code-movement which doesn't cause
>    functional changes.  Jan's patches are functional changes which
>    require more thought and testing and possible fixups.

Fine by me.  Jan?

Jan's patches also correct garbled output with the relatively
infrequent use of printk with only a newline like printk("\n");

$ git grep -E "\b(printk|pr_cont)\s*\(\s*\"\\\\n\""|wc -l
890

I think that's not too serious a dmesg problem for now.


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