Re: [PATCH 1/3] printk: Introduce per-console loglevel setting

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Fri Oct 20 2017 - 04:05:16 EST


On Thu 2017-10-19 16:40:45, Calvin Owens wrote:
> On 09/28/2017 05:43 PM, Calvin Owens wrote:
> >Not all consoles are created equal: depending on the actual hardware,
> >the latency of a printk() call can vary dramatically. The worst examples
> >are serial consoles, where it can spin for tens of milliseconds banging
> >the UART to emit a message, which can cause application-level problems
> >when the kernel spews onto the console.
>
> Any thoughts on this series? Happy to resend again, but if there are no
> objections I'd love to see it merged sooner rather than later :)
>
> Happy to resend too, just let me know.

There is no need to resend the patch. It is on my radar and I am
going to look at it.

Please, be patient, you hit conference, illness, after vacation
season. We do not want to unnecessarily delay it but it is
not a trivial change that might be accepted within minutes.

Best Regards,
Petr