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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
	Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 13:33:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1475872401.1945.17.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyMPLmxKdYK70Omhpq3SehHqdA3L97mM5dsiw-OTnhG8Q@mail.gmail.com>

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>

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-07 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-07  8:51 [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9 Jiri Kosina
2016-10-07 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-07 20:04   ` Joe Perches
2016-10-07 20:13     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-07 20:18       ` Joe Perches
2016-10-07 20:25         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-07 20:33           ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-10-07 21:06             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-07 21:37               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-08  7:36                 ` Joe Perches
2016-10-10  5:48                 ` Joe Perches
2016-10-07 21:44               ` Joe Perches
2016-10-07 23:01                 ` Tony Luck
2016-10-07 23:09                   ` Tony Luck
2016-10-07 23:36                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-08 13:16                     ` Steven Rostedt

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