[PATCH v3] printk: Have printk() never buffer its data

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 16:32 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Then you've changed semantics and I think you need to
> fix it.
> 
> A dev_<level> call is not guaranteed to be a complete
> message.
> 
> There are dev_<level> and netdev_<level> calls
> followed by pr_cont.
> 
> Maybe these could be fixed up and then they could be
> always integral.  There don't look to be too many.
> 
> This may be most (all?) of them:

Nah, there's a bunch more:

$ git grep -E -A10 "\b(netdev|dev)_(info|warn|notice|err|alert|emerg|crit)" drivers | \
  grep -B10 -E "\bprintk\s*\(\s*(KERN_CONT|)\s*\""

All of them could be fixed up though.