On Tue, 2017-08-29 at 09:48 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 2:05 AM, Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > In 4.13-rc, printk("foo"); printk("bar"); seems to produce > > foo\nbar. That's... quite surprising/unwelcome. What is going on > > there? Are timestamps responsible? > > No. > > It's actively trying to treach you not to do shit. > > If you want to continue a line, you NEED to use KERN_CONT. > > That has always been true. It hasn't always been enforced, though.
That's simply false. It was never true until you made it a requirement. (it's not a bad requirement, but it did change behavior) It was just unfortunate there were( and still are) many cases that needed updating.
