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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:04:55 +0000

> What is the rationale of this decision? printk is a basic tool,
> especially designed to work in as many places as possible, and
> netconsole is rather something secondary (sorry Matt)?!

And this basic tool cannot work from the drivers ->open() method.