Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Antonino A. Daplas" <[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.
>
> Always by the current process which holds console_sem. Leaving the printing
> for the next process would be unacceptably too late for printk.
I stand corrected. Thank you.
Tony
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