linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] printk: Revert the buffered-printk() changes for now

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:59:48 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: Revert the buffered-printk() changes for now

On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 07:52 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> what is left are over 50,000 
> call sites of bragging and debugging code, occasionally massaged 
> to be somewhat user friendly.

Bragging.  Silly.  A _very_ small percent of
printks are "look at me" messages so I think that's
a ridiculously poor argument.

Most of the printks are announcement and error
logging notifications.


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