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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 08:38:24 -0500
From: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] printk: initialize syslog_prev and console_prev
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On 07/18/2014 05:43 AM, Petr Ml?dek wrote:
> On Thu 2014-07-17 09:09:06, Alex Elder wrote:
>> Two global variables, "syslog_prev" and "console_prev", maintain a
>> copy of the flags value used in the log record most recently
>> formatted for syslog or the console, respectively.

. . .

>> @@ -2148,7 +2148,7 @@ again:
>>  			/* messages are gone, move to first one */
>>  			console_seq = log_first_seq;
>>  			console_idx = log_first_idx;
>> -			console_prev = 0;
>> +			console_prev = LOG_NEWLINE;
>>  		} else {
>>  			len = 0;
>>  		}
> 
> It would make sense to add '\n' if we skip something and the previous
> copied line was continuous. This would change the behavior, so we
> should do this in separate patch.

I'm working up a v3 of this series and have inserted a patch
that implements this at the beginning.

> Anyway, it makes sense to reset the flag to LOG_NEWLINE.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>

Thanks a lot.

					-Alex

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