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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix bytecount result from printk()
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:22:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <438FAFD5.9070008@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051201180459.2afa2b1d.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Please review these patches, queued since 2.6.15-rc1-mm1:
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.15-rc3/2.6.15-rc3-mm1/broken-out/printk-return-value-fix-it.patch
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.15-rc3/2.6.15-rc3-mm1/broken-out/kmsg_write-dont-return-printk-return-value.patch

Yes, those patches actually appear to fix the counting.

The patch I submitted merely makes it internally consistent
within printk/vprintk(), but does not change it to actually
be correct.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-02  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-01 15:55 [PATCH] Fix bytecount result from printk() Mark Lord
2005-12-01 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-01 16:25   ` Mark Lord
2005-12-01 17:57 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-01 20:15   ` David S. Miller
2005-12-02  1:23     ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-01 21:09       ` Mark Lord
2005-12-01 21:16         ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-02  2:04   ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-02  2:22     ` Mark Lord [this message]
2005-12-01 20:14 ` David S. Miller

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