Re: printk: what is going on with additional newlines?

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2017-08-29 at 10:36 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Your change broke a bunch of output.
> 
> Tough. We've done that before to force people to fix their code.

No worries.
I don't mind the change at all really.

You do seem to like enhancing your reputation against
"plays well with others" kindergarten grading.

> I'm actually upset that EVEN NOW (and it's been, what, 18 months),

Odd maths.
October 2016 to August 2017 is barely half that.

> people ask for the old broken shit behavior back.

You seem to overestimate how often people test their
code against current kernels.

And look for documentation that shows this as a
requirement.

Other than your commit log entry and some LKML chatter
I believe that you'll have a hard time finding any.

$ git grep -i KERN_CONT Documentation/
$ git grep -i pr_cont Documentation/
$