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Message-ID: <20080811142900.GU9038@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:29:00 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	marcin.slusarz@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: robustify printk

$INSERT-ANY-OTHER-PRINTK-USE$

The point was that printk may have been perfectly adequate for 
them with its existing buffer sizes and dynamic wake up frequency,
and might not anymore with the timer wakeup change. Essentially
it is making a widely used kernel facility more fragile.

-Andi
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