Re: [PATCH v3] printk: Have printk() never buffer its data

Kay Sievers
2012-06-26T17:01:00Z

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 06:07:36PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 18:40 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Buffering has nice effects though:
>> > > It makes continuation lines appear as one record in the buffer, not as
>> > > n individual prints with n headers.
>> >
>> > As I already mentioned, buffering for *logging* is different from
>> > buffering for *printing*.
>> >
>> > I think it might be a great idea to buffer for logging in order to
>> > generate one individual buffer record there.
>> >
>> > But it needs to be printed as it is generated.
>>
>> That's a good idea.
>>
>> Something like this could work - only minimally tested at this moment.
>
> Hm, this doesn't boot for me, just hangs at startup :(

You have that patch against your tree? Let me try that, maybe it
conflicts with one of the patches there ...

Kay