Re: [PATCH] Remove multiple KERN_ prefixes from printk formats

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Jul 06 2009 - 16:31:26 EST


On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:23 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> thanks, i had started this in the Blackfin code a little, but your
> patch includes what i did and more, so the Blackfin stuff should be
> mostly fine (pending comments below).
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> > - printk(KERN_EMERG "\n" KERN_EMERG "Double Fault\n");
> > + printk(KERN_EMERG "Double Fault\n");
>
> dropped a newline. we've largely made sure the newlines and such were
> as we want in the output ... in this case, it is not a matter of
> adding a newline where one did not exist before

Hi Mike.

I'm of the opinion that blank lines in the log file
aren't very useful, but as you like, it's your code.

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