From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763254AbXGXSM4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:12:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755763AbXGXSMq (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:12:46 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:52875 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758188AbXGXSMp (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:12:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:12:15 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Robin Getz Cc: "Mike Frysinger" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Greg Ungerer" , "Russell King" , "Paul Mundt" , "Tim Bird" , bryan.wu@analog.com Subject: Re: early_printk accessing __log_buf Message-Id: <20070724111215.8d91dc7c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <200707241350.45086.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> References: <200707181756.44074.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> <200707231815.38124.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> <20070723153437.4fc62253.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200707241350.45086.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:50:44 -0400 Robin Getz wrote: > > Lots of the kernel is pretty crappy. One of our main tools for fixing > > that is to ensure that new stuff is non-crappy. > > No problem - I wasn't advocating putting something that you thought was crappy > into your tree (afterall that would be futile). You wouldn't be the first ;) > Other than making the > overhead high - is there a way to make it less crappy? > > If the answer is no, and Mike's latest suggestion/patch is OK - that is what I > will live with - and tell people to spend more on their power supply. Oh well, it sounds like we need the super-duper fast version. Keep it as simple as possible, please.