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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:11:58 +0000
From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: mpm@selenic.com, marcin.slusarz@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com, stable@kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] netconsole: fix BUG during net device "upping"
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 01:05:41AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

And in any function used in the drivers ->open(). BTW, with Marcin's
patch it can...

Jarek P.