Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:06:48 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: janitoring printk with no KERN_ constants, kill all defaults? |
| |
Dave Jones wrote:
> Consider this.. > > printk (KERN_INFO "blah blah "); > if (foo) > printk ("%s", stringptr); > else > printk ("%d", number); > printk ("\n"); > > There's nothing wrong with any of those printk's, so you > cannot do the checks you mention above.
But other code can call printk in between on SMP and/or preempt systems, making a mess of the log. This is a(n old) problem that should be fixed once and for all, AFAIC.
--Chuck Ebbert 15-Oct-04 13:05:20 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |