Re: [PATCH] 2.4.16 kernel/printk.c (per processorinitializationcheck)

Christopher Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Fri, 07 Dec 2001 17:14:11 -0500

David Mosberger wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:52:07 -0200 (BRST), Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> said:
>
> Marcelo> I'm really not willing to apply this kludge...
>
> Do you agree that it should always be safe to call printk() from C code?

Is it really safe to call this from interrupt handlers? I can think of cases
where the time required to print can totally mess stuff up...

Chris

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