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Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 17:11:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] report size of printk buffer
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Hi,

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> If one asks for count bytes, one gets the last count bytes of output,
> not the first.

That doesn't answer the question, why don't you just clear the data that
was read?

bye, Roman