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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 16:15:03 +0100
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH printk v3 4/6] printk: introduce struct console_buffers
On Wed 2022-12-21 21:33:02, John Ogness wrote:
> Introduce a new struct console_buffers to contain all the buffers
> needed to read and format a printk message for console output.
> Putting the buffers inside a struct reduces the number of buffer
> pointers that need to be tracked. Also, it allows usage of the
> sizeof() macro for the buffer sizes, rather than expecting certain
> sized buffers being passed in.
>
> Note that since the output buffer for normal consoles is now
> CONSOLE_EXT_LOG_MAX instead of CONSOLE_LOG_MAX, multi-line
> messages that may have been previously truncated will now be
> printed in full. This should be considered a feature and not a bug
> since the CONSOLE_LOG_MAX restriction was about limiting static
> buffer usage rather than limiting printed text.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Thanks for renaming the buffers. I believe that it will make
the code easier to follow in the long term.
Best Regards,
Petr
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