On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:46 PM, "Jan H. Schönherr"
<schn...@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Am 27.09.2012 15:39, schrieb Kay Sievers:

>> It is a flag that we have not been able to merge a continuation line
>> in the buffer, because we had a race with another thread, or the
>> console lock was taken for a long time and we couldn't use the merge
>> buffer.
>
> But it is also set, if we don't know yet, whether there is going to
> be a continuation (printk.c, line 1583):
>
>         log_store(facility, level, lflags | LOG_CONT, 0,
>                   dict, dictlen, text, text_len);
>
> This confuses devkmsg_read() and msg_print_text() later on.

Yeah, I can see that here too. Tested your patch and seems to behave
well with a bunch of other tests I still have available. Looks good
and worth to try:
  Tested-By: Kay Sievers <k...@vrfy.org>

Thanks,
Kay
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