Re: [PATCH] printk: Modify operators of printed_len

[pierre kuo]

hi Joe:
2017-07-08 1:12 GMT+08:00 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, 2017-07-08 at 00:30 +0800, Pierre Kuo wrote:
>> In 8b1742c9c207, we remove printk-recursion detection code in
>> vprintk_emit(), where it is the first place that printed_len calculated.
>> After removing above detection, it seems we can directly assign the
>> result of log_output to printed_len.
> []
>> diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> []
>> @@ -1754,7 +1754,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
>>       if (dict)
>>               lflags |= LOG_PREFIX|LOG_NEWLINE;
>>
>> -     printed_len += log_output(facility, level, lflags, dict, dictlen, text, text_len);
>> +     printed_len = log_output(facility, level, lflags, dict, dictlen, text, text_len);
>
> If this is appropriate, this should also remove the
> initialization of printed_len and perhaps rename it too.
I cannot quite understand the reason why need to rename.
printed_len seems meet the meaning we expect for here.

thanks for your friendly comment.