Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756991Ab2EJUkX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2012 16:40:23 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-f49.google.com ([209.85.216.49]:51211 "EHLO mail-qa0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752683Ab2EJUkU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2012 16:40:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1336682226.29763.2.camel@joe2Laptop> References: <20120509070710.GA29981@gmail.com> <1336611278.728.9.camel@mop> <1336667984.947.24.camel@mop> <1336676986.947.47.camel@mop> <20120510201409.GA6467@thunk.org> <1336682226.29763.2.camel@joe2Laptop> From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 22:39:59 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer To: Joe Perches Cc: "Ted Ts'o" , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Jonathan Corbet , Sasha Levin , Greg Kroah-Hartmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 856 Lines: 24 On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 16:14 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: >> Is there any difference in any of the cases in terms of how printk's >> that are prefixed with KERN_CONT versus a printk that does not have >> any KERN_* prefix?  If so, is there value in keeping KERN_CONT? > > As far as I know, no. > > It is a useful marker to show where prints > are actually continued. > > #define KERN_CONT "" > > would save a small amount of text. Nah, we can't do that. We need it to tell "here is your non-prefix to parse, leave the data behind alone". Kay -- 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/