Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: Add missing newline terminators to kernel messages

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Joe,

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-08-16 at 15:40 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Before commit 874f9c7da9a4acbc ("printk: create pr_<level> functions"),
>> pr_*() calls without a trailing newline characters would be printed with
>> a newline character appended, both on the console and in the output of
>> the dmesg command.
>
> Hey Geert.
>
> This doesn't apply to -next as the pr_notice/pr_cont below is
> properly changed to a single pr_notice.

In which -next?

Not in next-20160816, where the patch applies cleanly.
Also not in arm/for-next.

>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
>
> []
>> @@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ void __init sanity_check_meminfo(void)
>>                               pr_notice("Truncating RAM at %pa-%pa",
>>                                         &block_start, &block_end);
>>                               block_end = vmalloc_limit;
>> -                             pr_cont(" to -%pa", &block_end);
>> +                             pr_cont(" to -%pa\n", &block_end);
>>                               memblock_remove(vmalloc_limit, overlap_size);
>>                               should_use_highmem = true;

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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