Re: [RFC PATCH 9/9] printk: Wake up klogd using irq_work

[Frederic Weisbecker]

2012/10/29 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 14:28 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>> klogd is woken up asynchronously from the tick in order
>> to do it safely.
>>
>> However if printk is called when the tick is stopped, the reader
>> won't be woken up until the next interrupt, which might not fire
>> before a while. As a result, the user may miss some message.
>
> Just a grammar nit (and goes for your previous patch as well). We say
> "might not fire for a while." or you could say ".. for some time", but
> not "before a while" ;-)

Right!

>
> I wounder what the French translation of that is.

You don't really want to know ;)
But as you guess, this is quite close to something like "before a while" ;)
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