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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

  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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