Re: slow down printk during boot.

[Bodo Eggert]

Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch from Randy has proven quite useful from time to time,
> and has been in Fedora kernels for a while for that reason.
> I fixed up some checkpatch warnings, and rediffed it a bunch
> of times, Randy did the heavy lifting.
> 
> ---
> 
> This one delays each printk() during boot by a variable time
> (from kernel command line), while system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING.
> Caveat:  it's not terribly SMP safe or SMP nice.
> Any ideas for improvements (esp. in the SMP area) are appreciated.

I just created a different patch, which replaces the panic with one that
does allow scrolling and reading the messages. Maybe that would be the
better approach ...

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