Re: early_printk accessing __log_buf

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jul 24 2007 - 14:12:57 EST


On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:50:44 -0400
Robin Getz <rgetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Lots of the kernel is pretty crappy. One of our main tools for fixing
> > that is to ensure that new stuff is non-crappy.
>
> No problem - I wasn't advocating putting something that you thought was crappy
> into your tree (afterall that would be futile).

You wouldn't be the first ;)

> Other than making the
> overhead high - is there a way to make it less crappy?
>
> If the answer is no, and Mike's latest suggestion/patch is OK - that is what I
> will live with - and tell people to spend more on their power supply.

Oh well, it sounds like we need the super-duper fast version. Keep it as
simple as possible, please.

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