Re: [PATCH] Fix bytecount result from printk()

[Mark Lord]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Please review these patches, queued since 2.6.15-rc1-mm1:
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.15-rc3/2.6.15-rc3-mm1/broken-out/printk-return-value-fix-it.patch
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.15-rc3/2.6.15-rc3-mm1/broken-out/kmsg_write-dont-return-printk-return-value.patch

Yes, those patches actually appear to fix the counting.

The patch I submitted merely makes it internally consistent
within printk/vprintk(), but does not change it to actually
be correct.

Cheers
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