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From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniele Pizzoni <auouo@tin.it>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: janitoring printk with no KERN_ constants, kill all defaults?
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:06:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410151311_MC3-1-8C48-9C05@compuserve.com> (raw)

Dave Jones wrote:

> Consider this..
>
>       printk (KERN_INFO "blah blah ");
>       if (foo)
>               printk ("%s", stringptr);
>       else
>               printk ("%d", number);
>       printk ("\n");
>
> There's nothing wrong with any of those printk's, so you
> cannot do the checks you mention above.

  But other code can call printk in between on SMP and/or preempt systems,
making a mess of the log.  This is a(n old) problem that should be
fixed once and for all, AFAIC.



--Chuck Ebbert  15-Oct-04  13:05:20

             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-15 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-15 17:06 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-15 15:44 Daniele Pizzoni
2004-10-15 15:46 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-15 17:20   ` Daniele Pizzoni

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