Use pr_cont() at the end of ramdisk loading. This will avoid the rotator and an extra newline appearing in the dmesg.
Before: [ 0.868650] RAMDISK: Loading 2436KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... | [ 1.490464] done. After: [ 0.868587] RAMDISK: Loading 2436KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done. Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koski...@iki.fi> --- init/do_mounts_rd.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/do_mounts_rd.c b/init/do_mounts_rd.c index 99e0b64..e3cba12 100644 --- a/init/do_mounts_rd.c +++ b/init/do_mounts_rd.c @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ int __init rd_load_image(char *from) nblocks, ((nblocks-1)/devblocks)+1, nblocks>devblocks ? "s" : ""); for (i = 0, disk = 1; i < nblocks; i++) { if (i && (i % devblocks == 0)) { - printk("done disk #%d.\n", disk++); + pr_cont("done disk #%d.\n", disk++); rotate = 0; if (sys_close(in_fd)) { printk("Error closing the disk.\n"); @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ int __init rd_load_image(char *from) } #endif } - printk("done.\n"); + pr_cont("done.\n"); successful_load: res = 1; -- 2.9.2