Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:
require people to change).
But even before it was technically required, it was very much supposed to be there as a marker. It was added in commit 474925277671 ("printk: add KERN_CONT annotation") back in 2007, with a comment that said - at that time: annotation") back in 2007, with a comment that said - at that time:
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(it's not a bad requirement, but it did change behavior) Oh, it changed behavior, yes (and for kernel code we do that, and require people to change).require people to change).
But even before it was technically required, it was very much supposed to be there as a marker. It was added in commit 474925277671 ("printk: add KERN_CONT annotation") back in 2007, with a comment that said - at that time: annotation") back in 2007, with a comment that said - at that time:
/* * Annotation for a "continued" line of log printout (only done after a * line that had no enclosing \n).