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

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Nov 26 2017 - 20:35:38 EST


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.