Re: printk: what is going on with additional newlines?

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Sep 04 2017 - 01:41:21 EST


On Mon, 2017-09-04 at 14:22 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> there is only way to serialize printks against other printks -- take
> the logbuf lock.

If that's really necessary, instead make that
logbuf_lock a public interface and keep the rest
of the code simple.

I think it's more important to get printk to work
reliably than keep expanding the number of lines
possible to buffer.