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From:   John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: smpboot: CPU numbers printed as warning
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Date:   Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:17:24 +0106
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On 2021-02-16, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>> Also you should add '\n' into the previous string to make the behavior
>> clear. It will always be printed on a new line when pr_info()
>> is used.
>
> This was made to use pr_cont() on purpose so that the output is
> compact,

It is supported to provide loglevels for CONT messages. The loglevel is
then only used if the append fails:

    pr_cont(KERN_INFO "message part");

I don't know if we want to go down that path. But it is supported.

John Ogness