linux-kernel - Re: printk meeting at LPC

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Message-ID: <20190917093720.51977128@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:37:20 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        AndreaParri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LinusTorvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        PraritBhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: printk meeting at LPC

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:12:04 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:

> > Well, it's being used. I was thinking of dropping it if it was not.
> > Let's keep it then.  
> 
> I think it should be dropped, only one user of the kernel is using it in
> a legitimate way, which kind of implies it isn't needed.

I'm thinking if it isn't hard to support then we can keep it (meaning
that we already have to calculate the length anyway). But if it starts
to complicate the code, then we should drop it.

-- Steve