linux-kernel - Re: linux.git: printk() problem

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Date:   Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:16:01 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux.git: printk() problem

On Wed, 2016-10-12 at 08:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
< We'll see. But the other issues are easily fixed by just adding
> KERN_CONT where appropriate. It was actually very much what you were
> supposed to do before too, if only as a marker to others that "yes,
> I'm actually doing this, and no, I'm not supposed to have a log level"
> (but with the new world order you actually *can* combine KERN_CONT
> with a loglevel, so that if the beginning od the line got flushed, the
> continuation can still be printed with the right log level).

I think that might not be a good idea.

Anything that uses a KERN_CONT with a new log level
might as well be converted into multiple printks.