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From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.16 kernel/printk.c (per processorinitializationcheck)
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 17:14:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C113F33.B310CB10@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C103A1E.2524A7B7@zip.com.au> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112071651360.22868-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> <15377.13976.342104.636304@napali.hpl.hp.com>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-07 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-03  5:46 [PATCH] 2.4.16 kernel/printk.c (per processor initialization check) j-nomura
2001-12-03  9:20 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-03 10:32   ` j-nomura
2001-12-04  1:45     ` [PATCH] 2.4.16 kernel/printk.c (per processor initializationcheck) Andrew Morton
2001-12-06  5:01       ` j-nomura
2001-12-07  3:40         ` [PATCH] 2.4.16 kernel/printk.c (per processorinitializationcheck) Andrew Morton
2001-12-07 18:52           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-12-07 20:52             ` William Lee Irwin III
2001-12-07 21:37             ` David Mosberger
2001-12-07 20:47               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-12-07 22:17                 ` David Mosberger
2001-12-07 21:09                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-12-08  1:10                     ` David Mosberger
2001-12-08 11:27                       ` Alan Cox
2001-12-08 16:41                         ` David Mosberger
2001-12-08 20:45                           ` Alan Cox
2001-12-09  0:32                             ` David Mosberger
2001-12-09  0:55                               ` Alan Cox
2001-12-09  0:58                                 ` David Mosberger
2001-12-09  1:15                                   ` Alan Cox
2001-12-09  1:14                                     ` David Mosberger
2001-12-09  1:32                                       ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07 22:08               ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07 22:14               ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
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2001-12-08 17:36 Manfred Spraul

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