On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Joe Perches wrote: > Corrected printk calls with multiple output lines which > did not correctly preface each line with KERN_<level> > > Fixed uses of some single lines with too many KERN_<level> > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c > @@ -547,7 +547,8 @@ static void ecard_check_lockup(struct irq_desc *desc) > if (last == jiffies) { > lockup += 1; > if (lockup > 1000000) { > - printk(KERN_ERR "\nInterrupt lockup detected - " > + printk(KERN_ERR "\n" > + KERN_ERR "Interrupt lockup detected - " > "disabling all expansion card interrupts\n"); > > desc->chip->mask(IRQ_EXPANSIONCARD); What's the purpose of having lines printed with e.g. `KERN_ERR "\n"' only? Shouldn't these just be removed? Usually lines starting with `\n' are continuations, but given some other module may call printk() in between, there's no guarantee continuations appear on the same line. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html