linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9

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Date:   Fri, 07 Oct 2016 13:33:21 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9

On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 13:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I find this noise to add '\n' characters completely pointless. It's
> bogus stupid churn that doesn't actually make the source code better,
> and it also doesn't actually seem to fix any behavioral issues.
> 
> And if there are behavioral issues, they should (a) be pointed out and
> (b) be fixed.
> 
> In *no* case does it make sense to randomly just add newline
> characters without even having a reason for it.

It prevents random interleaving from those other
12000+ possible printk calls without an explicit
KERN_<LEVEL>