Re: Debugging Printk

From: Amit Yadav (amit_ra_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/26/05 

Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 18:58:34 +0530

So, is this essential that a newline should be at the end of the
message/string passed to the printk ie

char *a = "some message";
printk(a);

is wrong ?? and it should be

char *a = "some message\n";
printk(a);

Thanks

Amit.

Kasper Dupont wrote:
> Josef Moellers wrote:
>
>>Whenever I see these severity indicators e.g. in /var/log/messages, they
>>appear when there are characters other than a newline _before_ them.
>
>
> Indeed, this typically happens if somewhere
> else in the kernel somebody forgot to end a
> printk with a newline.
>

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