Re: [PATCH] Fix bytecount result from printk()

[Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Mark Lord wrote:
> 
>>On a related note, WHY does the LOG LEVEL format <6> not get
>>interpreted correctly for the first printk() after an oops report?
>
> It never gets interpreted except at the behinning of a line. Sounds like 
> the oops report perhaps prints a " " without a newline or something at the 
> end, so that the next message after that isn't a new line?

The oops report always ends with a simple newline:  printk("\n");