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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> KERN_CONT should not be needed if the previous printk didn't have a final "\n".
>
> We made it easier to use printk for a reason a few months ago. The new
> rules are:
>
>  - If you have a KERN_<loglevel>, it *always* starts a new line, the
> obvious exception being KERN_CONT
>
>  - the loglevels *only* matter at the start of the printk - so if you
> have '\n' embedded in a single printk, that changes nothing
> what-so-ever. It's not line-based.
>
>  - if you didn't have a '\n', and don't have a loglevel, KERN_CONT is implied.
>
> Quite frankly, those three rules (a) make sense and (b) make things easy.

Is there a reason to keep KERN_CONT under this set of rules at all?

I'm guessing that there are very few places that have a final '\n' but
still want to use KERN_CONT, and even in that case it should be
trivially easy to fix them up.

Besides that, from what I understand, KERN_CONT isn't really needed.
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