On Sun, 2017-11-26 at 19:17 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > I just assume that a printk that has no KERN_ is adding a > newline, which is my understanding of Joe's comment.
More precisely: Any printk without an initial KERN_CONT prepends a newline if the last printk content char emitted that is not part of a printk timestamp/header was not a newline.