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Message-ID: <566B4D68.20409@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:25:44 -0800
From: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
Laura Abbott <labbott@...oraproject.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] module: Limit line length of module prints
On 12/11/2015 01:39 AM, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Laura Abbott <labbott@...oraproject.org> writes:
>> print_modules currently uses pr_cont to print all module information.
>> This has the side effect of printing lots of modules on one very long
>> line. This makes copy/pasting oopses more effort if manual wrapping is
>> required. Place a reasonable limit (80 chars) on the number of modules
>> on each line.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@...oraproject.org>
>> ---
>> Does this bother anyone else or am I the only one who hates dealing
>> with the long lines of "Modules linked in"?
>
> Never bothered me, but I'm a bit odd :) I worry more about the effect
> on machine parsing.
>
Yes, that was a concern I had as well, but the module list seems to get
wrapped eventually (although at a much longer length) so it seems like
if machine parsing can handle one wrap it can handle multiple wraps.
> Cheers,
> Rusty.
>
Thanks,
Laura
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