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From: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
To: "Petr Mládek" <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, bp@suse.de, john.stultz@linaro.org,
	jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] printk: initialize syslog_prev and console_prev
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 08:38:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C92350.40204@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140718104338.GX6774@pathway.suse.cz>

On 07/18/2014 05:43 AM, Petr Mládek wrote:
> On Thu 2014-07-17 09:09:06, Alex Elder wrote:
>> Two global variables, "syslog_prev" and "console_prev", maintain a
>> copy of the flags value used in the log record most recently
>> formatted for syslog or the console, respectively.

. . .

>> @@ -2148,7 +2148,7 @@ again:
>>  			/* messages are gone, move to first one */
>>  			console_seq = log_first_seq;
>>  			console_idx = log_first_idx;
>> -			console_prev = 0;
>> +			console_prev = LOG_NEWLINE;
>>  		} else {
>>  			len = 0;
>>  		}
> 
> It would make sense to add '\n' if we skip something and the previous
> copied line was continuous. This would change the behavior, so we
> should do this in separate patch.

I'm working up a v3 of this series and have inserted a patch
that implements this at the beginning.

> Anyway, it makes sense to reset the flag to LOG_NEWLINE.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>

Thanks a lot.

					-Alex


  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-18 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-17 14:09 [PATCH v2 0/6] printk: start simplifying some flags Alex Elder
2014-07-17 14:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] printk: initialize syslog_prev and console_prev Alex Elder
2014-07-18 10:43   ` Petr Mládek
2014-07-18 13:38     ` Alex Elder [this message]
2014-07-17 14:09 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] printk: LOG_CONT and LOG_NEWLINE are opposites Alex Elder
2014-07-18 10:53   ` Petr Mládek
2014-07-18 13:39     ` Alex Elder
2014-07-17 14:09 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] printk: honor LOG_PREFIX in devkmsg_read() Alex Elder
2014-07-17 14:09 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] printk: honor LOG_PREFIX in msg_print_text() Alex Elder
2014-07-18 11:03   ` Petr Mládek
2014-07-17 14:09 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] printk: insert newline in devkmsg_read() Alex Elder
2014-07-18 11:45   ` Petr Mládek
2014-07-18 14:02     ` Alex Elder
2014-07-17 14:09 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] printk: correct some more typos Alex Elder
2014-07-18 11:46   ` Petr Mládek
2014-07-17 15:59 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] printk: start simplifying some flags Joe Perches
2014-07-17 16:04   ` Alex Elder

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