Re: [PATCH] removes unnessary print of space

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 12:34:37 +0400 Kirill Korotaev wrote:

| >>This patch removes unnessary print of space in bust_spinlocks().
| >> printk("") wakeups klogd as well,
| > 
| > Until some smarty comes along and optimises printk() to skip empty strings.
| > 
| > An explicit wake_up_klogd() thing might make sense, rather than relying
| > upon side-effects.
| yup, you are right. I was the easiest, but not the best.
| I'll make a patch with wakeup_klogd.
| 
| >>no need to print a space and make a mess.
| > Can't say that I've ever noticed that space.
| We did. Many times.

Same here.  Thanks for cleaning it up.

| I've noticed another thing. There is a default bust_spinlocks() in 
| lib/bust_spinlocks.c. 4 architectures including x86 have their own 
| copies of it, which are exactly the same as the default one.
| 
| So do we really need lib/bust_spinlocks.c or we can move a signle copy 
| of this function to kernel/printk.c?

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~Randy