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From: Marcus Sundberg <marcus@ingate.com>
Subject: Re: LOG interruptie
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:13:06 +0200
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if we're in a hard|soft interrupt when a network packet arrives and passes 
> through netfilter, and printk() can't be called from interrupt context, how 
> does the LOG target gets its duty done, then?

Hi,

printk() CAN be called from interrupt context (unless you modified
your kernel in some strange way).

//Marcus
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