The patch titled kill extraneous printk in kernel_restart() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kill-extraneous-printk-in-kernel_restart.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: kill extraneous printk in kernel_restart() From: Cal Peake <cp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Get rid of an extraneous printk in kernel_restart(). Signed-off-by: Cal Peake <cp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sys.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/sys.c~kill-extraneous-printk-in-kernel_restart kernel/sys.c --- a/kernel/sys.c~kill-extraneous-printk-in-kernel_restart +++ a/kernel/sys.c @@ -612,7 +612,6 @@ void kernel_restart(char *cmd) } else { printk(KERN_EMERG "Restarting system with command '%s'.\n", cmd); } - printk(".\n"); machine_restart(cmd); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_restart); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from cp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are kill-extraneous-printk-in-kernel_restart.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html