"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:53:42 +0200
>
> Why? It will make supporting netconsole easier which has to be careful
> to never recurse in the network driver.
>
> printk can check this
Actually it already does, to cover the case where an interrupt handler calls
printk while process-context code is performing a printk.
The nested printk will squirt the message into the log buffer and the
"outer" code will display it.
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