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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] printk: implement pr_cont_t
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:03:21 -0700
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On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 07:44 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Joe Perches
> > Sent: 20 August 2020 01:34
> > 
> > On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 01:32 +0206, John Ogness wrote:
> > > Implement a new buffering mechanism for pr_cont messages.
> > > 
> > > Old mechanism syntax:
> > > 
> > >     printk(KERN_INFO "text");
> > >     printk(KERN_CONT " continued");
> > >     printk(KERN_CONT "\n");
> > > 
> > > New mechanism syntax:
> > > 
> > >     pr_cont_t c;
> > > 
> > >     pr_cont_begin(&c, KERN_INFO "text");
> > 
> > bikeshed:
> > 
> > I suggest:
> > 
> > 	printk_begin(&printk_context, fmt, ...)
> > 	printk_continue(&printk_context, fmt, ...) (maybe printk_next())
> > 	printk_end(&printk_context, fmt, ...)
> 
> I see some very long source lines looming ...

Macros make that pretty short.

pr_<level>_start
pr_next
pr_end

Doesn't seem too bad.