On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 13:46 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > the concept of > printk(KERN_CONT "\n") > is just crazy: you're saying "I want to continue the line, in order to > print a newline". Whaa? It's a trivially useful "end of collected printk" mark, which was made a bit superfluous by the code that added any necessary newline before every KERN_<level>. There are a thousand or so of them today. $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] "\b(printk\s*\(\s*KERN_CONT|pr_cont\s*\(|printk\s*\()\s*\"\\\n\"" * | wc -l 1061 That code made all message terminating newlines a bit obsolete. I won't be submitting any patches to remove those EOM newlines any time soon. I hope no one does that. It would be actually useful to have some form like: cookie = collected_printk_start() loop: collected_printk(cookie, ...) (...) collected_printk_end(cookie) so that interleaved messages from multiple concurrent streams could be sensibly collected either post processed or buffered. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>