Garbled kernel messages on shutdown

[Damian Gerow]

Gary Jennejohn wrote:
: [snip a whole bunch of stuff]
: > This kernel output really looks bad:
: > Wai
: > tSiynngc i(nmga xd is6k0s ,s evcnoonddess)  rfeomra isnyisntge.m. .pr0o 
: > cess `syncer' to stop...0 done
: > 
: 
: I can't speak to the rest, but this is probably because you have SMP and
: don't have `options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128' in your kernel config.

Ah, so that's what causes that.

Any particular reason GENERIC has SMP, but doesn't set PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128?