Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-lengthrecord buffer

[Tony Luck]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   This is often useful for having loops that print out individual
> entries all on the same line - print all of them without the '\n'.

Though it is a pain when people do this and the output from each iteration
of the loop gets interleaved with other printk() output.  Perhaps it is OK to
do multiple printk() calls in initialization code where it kernel is
mostly single
threaded. But it should be avoided in "oh dear, something bad happened" bits
of code (in case the badness isn't localized and all the other cpus are spitting
out partial messages too).

-Tony
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