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Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] dynamic_debug: use a single printk() to emit msgs
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On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 12:04 -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> but that approach uses 'KERN_CONT'. The point of patch 11/11 is to get rid
> of KERN_CONT, which is racy. 

Not "racy" really, but it can be interleaved
by other threads so using KERN_CONT can make
the output difficult to read.