Re: [PATCH v11 0/3] printk: Make printk() completely async

From: Jan Kara
Date: Thu Apr 21 2016 - 09:19:36 EST


On Wed 20-04-16 19:17:13, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 11:14 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (04/15/16 22:44), Joe Perches wrote:
> > [..]
> > > > Sir, is there anything else you want me to improve in this patch
> > > > set?
> > > I'm not sir, but my preference would be to move as much of the
> > > async/thread functionality as possible into a separate file.
> > hm, we are talking about some 50-60 lines of code in total (seems
> > that the patch set adds more comments than code), but your point
> > is interesting. let's say, if there will be more opinions that it
> > better land in async_printk.{c,h} files, then I'll take a look on
> > it. how does it sound?
>
> I think printk.c is pretty large, complicated and should
> be broken up into several bits.
>
> I did that once, but it's a real development timing issue 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/17/41

As much as that may be a useful excercise, I don't think it really belongs
in this rather small patch set.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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