Since Linus Torvalds reinstated KERN_CONT in commit 4bcc595 in 2015, the qla1280 scsi driver printed a rather ugly and screen real estate wasting multi-line per device status glibberish during boot. Fix this by adding KERN_CONT as needed. Tested on my Sgi Octane: https://youtu.be/Lfqe1SYR2jk Signed-off-by: René Rebe <rene@xxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c b/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c index 545936cb3980..46de2541af25 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c @@ -3906,18 +3906,18 @@ qla1280_get_target_parameters(struct scsi_qla_host *ha, printk(KERN_INFO "scsi(%li:%d:%d:%d):", ha->host_no, bus, target, lun); if (mb[3] != 0) { - printk(" Sync: period %d, offset %d", + printk(KERN_CONT " Sync: period %d, offset %d", (mb[3] & 0xff), (mb[3] >> 8)); if (mb[2] & BIT_13) - printk(", Wide"); + printk(KERN_CONT ", Wide"); if ((mb[2] & BIT_5) && ((mb[6] >> 8) & 0xff) >= 2) - printk(", DT"); + printk(KERN_CONT ", DT"); } else - printk(" Async"); + printk(KERN_CONT " Async"); if (device->simple_tags) - printk(", Tagged queuing: depth %d", device->queue_depth); - printk("\n"); + printk(KERN_CONT ", Tagged queuing: depth %d", device->queue_depth); + printk(KERN_CONT "\n"); } -- René Rebe, ExactCODE GmbH, Lietzenburger Str. 42, DE-10789 Berlin https://exactcode.com | https://t2sde.org | https://rene.rebe.de