Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Simon Kitching <> | Subject | [PATCH] initramfs: prevent initramfs printk message being split by messages from other code. | Date | Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:18:05 +0100 |
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initramfs uses printk without a linefeed, then does some work, then uses printk to finish the message off. However if some other code does a printk in between, then the messages get mixed together. Better for each message to be an independent line...
Example of problem that this fixes: checking if image is initramfs...<7>Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1 Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0 it is
Signed-off-by: Simon Kitching <skitching@apache.org> --- init/initramfs.c | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c index d9c941c..948a2c6 100644 --- a/init/initramfs.c +++ b/init/initramfs.c @@ -583,17 +583,18 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void) if (initrd_start) { #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM int fd; - printk(KERN_INFO "checking if image is initramfs..."); + printk(KERN_INFO "Checking if rootfs image is initramfs...\n"); err = unpack_to_rootfs((char *)initrd_start, initrd_end - initrd_start, 1); if (!err) { - printk(" it is\n"); + printk(KERN_INFO "rootfs image is initramfs; unpacking...\n"); unpack_to_rootfs((char *)initrd_start, initrd_end - initrd_start, 0); free_initrd(); return 0; } - printk("it isn't (%s); looks like an initrd\n", err); + printk(KERN_INFO "rootfs image is not initramfs (%s)" + "; looks like an initrd\n", err); fd = sys_open("/initrd.image", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0700); if (fd >= 0) { sys_write(fd, (char *)initrd_start, -- 1.6.0.4
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