linux-kernel - Re: [RFC V2] printk: add warning while drop partial text in msg

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Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:05:41 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     pierre kuo <vichy.kuo@...il.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC V2] printk: add warning while drop partial text in msg

Hi,

On (08/11/17 00:55), pierre kuo wrote:
[..]
> And people will be hard to find out some part of message is left behind.
> (since the tail of original message is elegantly dropped by "\n")
> That is the reason I try to add such warning in msg_print_text.

have you ever seen it (the truncation) in real life?

	-ss