Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 6/1/06, Antonino A. Daplas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Jon Smirl wrote:
>> > On 6/1/06, D. Hazelton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>>
>> Console writes are done with the console semaphore held. printk will also
>> just write to the log buffer and defer the actual console printing
>> for later, by the next or current process that will grab the semaphore.
>
> That was my original position too. But Alan Cox has drilled it into me
> that this is not acceptable for printks in interrupt context, they
> need to print there and not be deferred.
>
Just to clarify, it's not my position, that's how the current printk code
works.
Tony
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