On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 13:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I find this noise to add '\n' characters completely pointless. It's > bogus stupid churn that doesn't actually make the source code better, > and it also doesn't actually seem to fix any behavioral issues. > > And if there are behavioral issues, they should (a) be pointed out and > (b) be fixed. > > In *no* case does it make sense to randomly just add newline > characters without even having a reason for it.
It prevents random interleaving from those other 12000+ possible printk calls without an explicit KERN_<LEVEL>
