Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751076Ab2EIEHP (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2012 00:07:15 -0400 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:44203 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750903Ab2EIEHB (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2012 00:07:01 -0400 Message-ID: <1336536416.13700.8.camel@joe2Laptop> Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer From: Joe Perches To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kay Sievers , Sasha Levin , Greg Kroah-Hartmann , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 21:06:56 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <1336004953.4240.9.camel@mop> <1336475689.1179.12.camel@mop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 809 Lines: 18 On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 20:52 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Kay Sievers wrote: > > Yeah, we need to make sure, we never merge the (always racy) > > continuation printk() users with (non-racy) non-continuation users. > > Therefore KERN_CONT is required to suppress the newline and to merge the > > content with the earlier non-newline-terminated printk() line. > > Please don't go adding ugly KERN_CONT when > there really isn't any reason for it. Just fix the printk code you > broke. Thanks for making that clear. -- 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/