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Message-ID: <CF26C56A.2E864%dbanerje@akamai.com>
Date:	Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:38:22 -0500
From:	"Banerjee, Debabrata" <dbanerje@...mai.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>,
	"dbavatar@...il.com" <dbavatar@...il.com>,
	"Hunt, Joshua" <johunt@...mai.com>, stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: Fix discarding of records

On 2/16/14, 7:41 PM, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Banerjee, Debabrata
><dbanerje@...mai.com> wrote:
>>
>> No that can't be right, the prev value after every loop is the
>>msg->flags
>> from the *last* line in the list, which has no relation to the *first*,
>>so
>> reusing it for the top of the next loop is nonsense.
>
>Please, Debabrata, humor me, and just try the patch.
>
>And try reading the source code. Because your statement is BS.
...
>No, I haven't tested my patch, and maybe it's broken for some subtle
>reason I'm missing too.

Yes my explanation was wrong, your patch works for me. I assumed printing
the prefix was desired, but if not, great.

-Debabrata


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