Re: [GIT PULL] trivial for 4.9

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Oct 07 2016 - 16:34:07 EST


On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 13:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I find this noise to add '\n' characters completely pointless. It's
> bogus stupid churn that doesn't actually make the source code better,
> and it also doesn't actually seem to fix any behavioral issues.
>
> And if there are behavioral issues, they should (a) be pointed out and
> (b) be fixed.
>
> In *no* case does it make sense to randomly just add newline
> characters without even having a reason for it.

It prevents random interleaving from those other
12000+ possible printk calls without an explicit
KERN_<LEVEL>