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From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 16:01:20 -0700
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9
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What if there isn't a "next printk" call for hours, or days?

That poor little message without a "\n" will sit in the kernel buffers,
and the user who might want to see the message can't, until some
unrelated thing happens to print something.

-Tony