Re: [PATCH 5/6] printk: Hand over printing to console if printing too long

[One Thousand Gnomes]

> Creating yet more kernel threads to solve this problem is a bit sad. 
> Is there no way in which we can borrow one of the existing threads?

schedule_work()

Surely that's all we need, if we get bunged up for a bit then it ends up
on a work queue item and everyone with a billion disks and a 9600 baud
serial port is still happy. Nobody else will ever see it.

Alan
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