Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762735Ab2FVVyH (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:54:07 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:51294 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753628Ab2FVVyF (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:54:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:54:02 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "kay.sievers" , Fengguang Wu , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: Add printk_flush() to force buffered text to console Message-Id: <20120622145402.8047a669.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1340322723.27036.220.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> References: <1340322723.27036.220.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 661 Lines: 17 On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:52:03 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote: > But with the new printk() changes, text without a newline gets buffered > and does not print out to the console at the location of the printk. uh, how about we fix that? The old behaviour was good, the new behaviour is noxious. Please idenfity these "new printk() changes". Was the new noxiousness an unavoidable effect of them? -- 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/