svn commit: r185891 - head/sys/kern

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 10 December 2008 04:48:05 pm Ed Schouten wrote:
> Author: ed
> Date: Wed Dec 10 21:48:05 2008
> New Revision: 185891
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/185891
> 
> Log:
>   Remove added newlines from logged messages written to /dev/console.
>   
>   The /dev/console device node logs all strings that are written to it.
>   When the string does not contain a trailing newline, it appends one. I
>   can imagine this was useful a long time ago, but with our current
>   rc-scripts, it generates a whole bunch of messages that look like:
>   
>   | Configuring syscons:
>   |  blanktime
>   | .
>   
>   By not appending the newlines, the output of `dmesg -a' is now (almost?)
>   exactly the same as what the user will see on the console device
>   (syscons, uart).

I believe phk@ inserted the new-lines on purpose to prevent interleaving of 
messages in dmesg.

-- 
John Baldwin