Re: [GIT PULL] x86/urgent fixes for v3.5

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> On 05/23/2012 10:07 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sasha Levin (1):
> >>      x86, printk: Add missing KERN_CONT to NMI selftest
> > 
> > Why? This seems to be garbage.
> > 
> 
> This was added to the urgent branch earlier (but it wasn't 
> worth pushing late in rc) but apparently a more underlying bug 
> was fixed in the meantime.
> 
> It didn't seem worth removing since the KERN_CONT should 
> really be there anyway.

I'm not sure it should be there: if there's no KERN_ prefix in a 
printk, and the previous printk from this context did not end 
with \n, then the KERN_CONT should be implicit.

KERN_CONT is really special, for rare cases where you want to 
explicitly avoid the <> priority field or to construct it.

Or at least that's how I understand this area, it might have 
been updated meanwhile - Linus?

Also, we can rebase the whole branch and get rid of this one and 
of the merge commit it has.

Thanks,

	Ingo