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Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9

From Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9
Date 2016-10-08 01:20 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> wrote:
> What if there isn't a "next printk" call for hours, or days?
>
> That poor little message without a "\n" will sit in the kernel buffers,
> and the user who might want to see the message can't, until some
> unrelated thing happens to print something.

Retracted ... I'm sure that at some point in the past it happened like
that ... but
I just retested on 4.8 and the first message (with no "\n") showed up on the
serial port just fine without some other message to push it out. When the
next message came along, a "\n" was auto-inserted.

-Tony

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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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