Re: [PATCH printk v6 00/17] add threaded printing + the rest

[John Ogness]

On 2024-09-04, Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> JFYI, the patchset has been committed into printk/linux.git,
> branch rework/threaded-printk.

Thanks!

> I am not completely sure if we add this early enough for 6.12.
> On one hand, the patchset should not change the handling of legacy
> consoles and it does not add any nbcon console. But it touches
> many code paths where we decide how to flush the consoles
> and could imagine doing "ugly" mistakes there.
>
> OK, let's see how it works in linux-next in the following days.
> There is still time to catch problems and make the decision.

I just don't think there are many real users of linux-next. The code
leading to the 5.19 revert sat in linux-next for a long time and no one
noticed anything. It wasn't until the 5.19-rc's started coming out that
real testing (and bug reporting) occurred.

I think linux-next is great for the kernel robots to work their magic,
but I don't know if having something in linux-next for 6 weeks is any
better than only 2 weeks.

John