linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: Add missing newline terminators to kernel messages

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Message-ID: <1471367313.4075.167.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:08:33 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: Add missing newline terminators to kernel
 messages

On Tue, 2016-08-16 at 15:40 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Before commit 874f9c7da9a4acbc ("printk: create pr_<level> functions"),
> pr_*() calls without a trailing newline characters would be printed with
> a newline character appended, both on the console and in the output of
> the dmesg command.

Hey Geert.

This doesn't apply to -next as the pr_notice/pr_cont below is
properly changed to a single pr_notice.

> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
[]
> @@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ void __init sanity_check_meminfo(void)
>  				pr_notice("Truncating RAM at %pa-%pa",
>  					  &block_start, &block_end);
>  				block_end = vmalloc_limit;
> -				pr_cont(" to -%pa", &block_end);
> +				pr_cont(" to -%pa\n", &block_end);
>  				memblock_remove(vmalloc_limit, overlap_size);
>  				should_use_highmem = true;
>  			}