[Bug 19430] kernel logging confused after "No module loaded"

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ben.collins at ubuntu.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




------- Additional Comments From ben.collins at ubuntu.com  2005-11-09 18:34 UTC -------
This can't be helped. The new "format" is what comes out of the kernel. The
problem is one of timing. Sometimes a kernel module will print something like:

printk(KERN_INFO "foobar: Checking blah blah blah...");
/* do something */
printk("done.\n");

After the first printk, and before the next, the code can be interrupted by
another process or interrupt that also spits out a printk, which pretty much
overwrites in the middle of the line.

The other thing is that the klogd is started _well_ after the kernel starts
printing the messages, and must first consume the entire kmsg buffer.

So, this isn't an issue that is easily fixes, nor do I consider it broken really.

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