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

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Message-ID: <CA+8MBb+xMS1Yr9dJG4gMmcp4x-XY4+UDGQ+=O7pZ51n8sYE8Ww@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 7 Oct 2016 16:01:20 -0700
From:   Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        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

What if there isn't a "next printk" call for hours, or days?

That poor little message without a "\n" will sit in the kernel buffers,
and the user who might want to see the message can't, until some
unrelated thing happens to print something.

-Tony