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On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 10:09 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> is it ok if we
> just merge this in 3.6-rc1 and backport it to 3.5.1 if it looks ok
> there?

I'd prefer it get accepted now so that refactoring the
printk subsystem could occur for 3.6.

Another option would be to revert all Kay's changes to the
printk subsystem, fix this in 3.6 and refactor in 3.7.