Re: [PATCH] printk: Remove pr_cont_once()

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2020-05-25 at 00:32 +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> pr_cont_once() does not make sense; at least emitting module name using
> pr_fmt() into middle of a line (after e.g. pr_info_once()) does not make
> sense. Let's remove unused pr_cont_once().

Right, thanks.

It's nearly a decade old cut'n'paste defect and
no one has ever used it or noticed it until now.

> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/printk.h | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h
> index 2562ffb438ed..4c565871f659 100644
> --- a/include/linux/printk.h
> +++ b/include/linux/printk.h
> @@ -476,8 +476,7 @@ extern int kptr_restrict;
>  	printk_once(KERN_NOTICE pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
>  #define pr_info_once(fmt, ...)					\
>  	printk_once(KERN_INFO pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> -#define pr_cont_once(fmt, ...)					\
> -	printk_once(KERN_CONT pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> +/* no pr_cont_once, don't do that... */
>  
>  #if defined(DEBUG) || defined(CONFIG_TWIST_ALWAYS_EVALUATE_DEBUG_PRINTK)
>  #define pr_devel_once(fmt, ...)					\