Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jan 1998 16:54:49 -0800 (PST) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: Change to printk breaks /proc/kmsg |
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On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Bill Hawes wrote: > > The change in 2.1.80 to kernel/printk.c commenting out the wake up of > logwait breaks /proc/kmsg for simple applications like teeing to a file. > > It seems like we would want to wake up any waiters after something new > has been written to the log buffer. Was there some problem with doing a > wake up at that point?
Heh.
That kind of change tends to indicate that somebody has been playing around with the low-level interrupt and/or SMP code, and wants to make sure that a prinkt() won't lock anything up when things are badly wrong.
Fixed,
Linus
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