Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Add a warning for log messages that don't end in a new line

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Mon Nov 27 2017 - 01:40:13 EST




On Sun, 26 Nov 2017, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Sun, 2017-11-26 at 19:17 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > I just assume that a printk that has no KERN_ is adding a
> > newline, which is my understanding of Joe's comment.
>
> More precisely:
>
> Any printk without an initial KERN_CONT prepends a newline
> if the last printk content char emitted that is not part
> of a printk timestamp/header was not a newline.

Ah, I misunderstood. I thought it was any printk that has no KERN
indicator at all. That I can fix.

julia