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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-06-26T16:59:02Z

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 :(