linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pwm: Add missing '\n' in log messages

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Date:   Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:09:49 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>, paul@...pouillou.net,
        u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de, linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm: Add missing '\n' in log messages

On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 21:49 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Huh...
> 
> If you look at dev_vprintk_emit().  It looks like if
> create_syslog_header() returns a string then vprintk_store() will add
> a newline.
> 
> I guess that means that dev_printk() can't be used to pr_cont().  And
> probably that's deliberate because using pr_cont() after boot is racy
> anyway.

Perhaps that's true, it didn't used to be.

There are couple dozen or so KERN_CONT uses after a dev_<level>
without a newline, so those _might_ be broken, but I don't thinks so.

$ git grep -P -A10 '\bdev_\w+\s*\(' | \
  grep -P -B10 "KERN_CONT|pr_cont"