Re: [PATCH 1/2] printk: remove unused flag LOG_NOCONS

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 14:16 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Thu 2018-05-31 15:47:51, Maninder Singh wrote:
> > This patch removes unused flag LOG_NOCONS for printk.
> > usage of this flag is removed long back with below commit.
> 
> Make sense.
> 
> > "5c2992ee7fd8a29d04125dc0aa3522784c5fa5eb"
> > printk: remove console flushing special cases for
> >  partial buffered lines
[]
> > diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
[]
> > @@ -349,10 +349,9 @@ enum con_msg_format_flags {
> >   */
> >  
> >  enum log_flags {
> > -	LOG_NOCONS	= 1,	/* already flushed, do not print to console */
> > -	LOG_NEWLINE	= 2,	/* text ended with a newline */
> > -	LOG_PREFIX	= 4,	/* text started with a prefix */
> > -	LOG_CONT	= 8,	/* text is a fragment of a continuation line */
> > +	LOG_NEWLINE	= 1,	/* text ended with a newline */
> > +	LOG_PREFIX	= 2,	/* text started with a prefix */
> > +	LOG_CONT	= 4,	/* text is a fragment of a continuation line */
> >  };
> 
> Please, do not renumber the bits if there is no real need for it.
> The format of the log buffer is read also by external tool like
> "crash". It seems that "crash" ignores these flags but...

Hmm, if it's not an internal interface, then these
definitions should probably be removed from this file
and exposed in a uapi file.