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authorKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2012-07-13 17:37:37 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2012-07-13 17:37:37 +0200
commit67fb8cfdd24615ae2953f2e520cf09dfed710978 (patch)
tree58f8377db1dd745c7054445d0ecab76a5562826b
parent8b869125898eede2463764041872baada791cb50 (diff)
downloadpatches-67fb8cfdd24615ae2953f2e520cf09dfed710978.tar.gz
update changelog
-rw-r--r--03-kmsg-cont-order.patch13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/03-kmsg-cont-order.patch b/03-kmsg-cont-order.patch
index eb2d4c8..94d4a63 100644
--- a/03-kmsg-cont-order.patch
+++ b/03-kmsg-cont-order.patch
@@ -5,14 +5,15 @@ Fragments of continuation lines are flushed to the console immediately. In
case the console is locked the fragment must be queued up in the cont
buffer.
-When the continuation line is complete and no part of it was written to the
-console up to this point, we just store the entire line as record.
+If the continuation line is complete and no part of it was written to the
+console up to this point, we can just store the entire line as a regular
+record and free the buffer earlier.
-If the console is busy and other messages are still queued up, we should not
-try flush fragments of continuation lines, but sort them after the queued
-up messages.
+If the console is busy and earlier messages are already held back, we
+should not try flush fragments of continuation lines, but store them after
+the queued up messages.
-This keeps the console output better readable in case printk()s case against
+This keeps the console output better readable in case printk()s race against
each other, or we receive over-long continuation lines we need to flush.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>