Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] module: Limit line length of module prints
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
References: <1449798632-29248-1-git-send-email-labbott@fedoraproject.org>
 <87a8phgw83.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
From: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <566B4D68.20409@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:25:44 -0800
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/38.4.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <87a8phgw83.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1190
Lines: 32

On 12/11/2015 01:39 AM, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org> writes:
>> print_modules currently uses pr_cont to print all module information.
>> This has the side effect of printing lots of modules on one very long
>> line. This makes copy/pasting oopses more effort if manual wrapping is
>> required. Place a reasonable limit (80 chars) on the number of modules
>> on each line.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
>> ---
>> Does this bother anyone else or am I the only one who hates dealing
>> with the long lines of "Modules linked in"?
>
> Never bothered me, but I'm a bit odd :)  I worry more about the effect
> on machine parsing.
>

Yes, that was a concern I had as well, but the module list seems to get
wrapped eventually (although at a much longer length) so it seems like
if machine parsing can handle one wrap it can handle multiple wraps.
  
> Cheers,
> Rusty.
>

Thanks,
Laura
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/