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From: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
	akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] report size of printk buffer
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 17:23:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040506152350.GD14714@apps.cwi.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405061708170.765-100000@serv.local>

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:11:26PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:

> > If one asks for count bytes, one gets the last count bytes of output,
> > not the first.
> 
> That doesn't answer the question, why don't you just clear the data that
> was read?

Think about it.
The buffer is 131072 bytes. We read the final 16384 bytes.
Now what?


[There are other problems as well, but I do not want to start a complicated
conversation for a triviality.]

      reply	other threads:[~2004-05-06 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-04 16:09 [PATCH] report size of printk buffer Andries.Brouwer
2004-05-05 13:12 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-05-05 20:42 ` Roman Zippel
2004-05-06 13:36   ` Andries Brouwer
2004-05-06 15:11     ` Roman Zippel
2004-05-06 15:23       ` Andries Brouwer [this message]

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