From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: printk() vs tty_io
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:32:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111215103220.7c08498f@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1323943005.18942.18.camel@twins>
> We probably could, I can have a closer look, but the main question is,
> are we going to commit to no wakeups from console implementations? That
> would mean removing the USB serial console support and other such stuff.
That's a non starter.
> [ Personally I think USB serial console is insane, if you really need
> something like that use the ehci-dbgp thing, that at least has a chance
> of working. ]
Sometimes USB serial console is the best you've got.
> If we're not going to commit to that (which would be valid choice given
> where we are), my printk efforts are pointless and I'll reconsider.
For lockdep spews do they need to be spewed synchronously - clearly it's
good if they can be but its possible that they could be buffered ?
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-15 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-13 19:33 Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-13 23:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-14 9:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-14 10:43 ` Alan Cox
2011-12-14 10:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-14 14:05 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-12-14 14:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-14 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-15 9:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-15 10:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-12-15 10:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-15 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-15 18:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-15 21:22 ` Alan Cox
2011-12-16 13:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-15 19:02 ` Greg KH
2011-12-14 6:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-14 9:40 ` [PATCH] arch, early_printk: Consolidate early_printk() implementations Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-14 9:41 ` [PATCH] lockdep: Enable earlyprintk output Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-14 9:43 ` printk() vs tty_io Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-14 9:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 12:03 ` Stijn Devriendt
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