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Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9

From Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9
Date 2016-10-07 22:40 +0200
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On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 13:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I find this noise to add '\n' characters completely pointless. It's
> bogus stupid churn that doesn't actually make the source code better,
> and it also doesn't actually seem to fix any behavioral issues.
> 
> And if there are behavioral issues, they should (a) be pointed out and
> (b) be fixed.
> 
> In *no* case does it make sense to randomly just add newline
> characters without even having a reason for it.

It prevents random interleaving from those other
12000+ possible printk calls without an explicit
KERN_<LEVEL>

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[GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-10-07 11:00 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-07 21:30 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-10-07 22:10 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-07 22:20 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-07 22:30 +0200
          Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-10-07 22:40 +0200
            Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-07 23:10 +0200
              Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-07 23:40 +0200
                Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-10-08 09:40 +0200
                Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-10-10 07:50 +0200
              Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-10-07 23:50 +0200
                Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> - 2016-10-08 01:10 +0200
                Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> - 2016-10-08 01:20 +0200
                Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-08 01:40 +0200
                Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-10-08 15:30 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-10-07 22:30 +0200

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