Hello!
> I admit that I'm very much a newbie here, but it seems that the effort to
> make a faster printk() would be better off in other areas, since, in the
> best of all worlds, it wouldn't ever be used during normal operation
> anyway?
The problem is not to make a faster printk(), but to make all the other
output faster (and preemptive) and still having _safe_ printk -- if we use
printk for reporting of errors, it should work reliably.
Have a nice fortnight
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