On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:42:57PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > > > what if there is no place left for init_utsname() after > > > msg_print_ext_header() + msg_print_ext_body()? > > > > It ends up being truncated, like either of the preceeding calls would. > > well, I meant once it's truncated your matching doesn't work anymore.
Given that most of the messages are written minding typical console widths, whether for editing or outputting, I don't think that's a practical concern. We're not talking about appending kilobytes worth of additional information here. Thanks. -- tejun