linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] printk/console: Do not suppress information about dropped messages

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Message-ID: <878sy1fw7n.fsf@linutronix.de>
Date:   Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:54:04 +0100
From:   John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk/console: Do not suppress information about dropped messages

On 2019-02-27, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com> wrote:
>> Imagine a situation where I am expecting a message to come, but don't
>> see it because it was dropped. But if no more non-supressed messages
>> come, I see neither the expected message nor the dropped message.
>
> Good point! There is a simple fix for this. We could print the warning
> also when all messages are proceed and we are about to leave the
> for-cycle.

Yes! That is the piece that was missing!

John Ogness