Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264434AbTFPWMm (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:12:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264437AbTFPWMm (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:12:42 -0400 Received: from pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com ([12.47.58.20]:31926 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264434AbTFPWMl (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:12:41 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:27:07 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "David S. Miller" Cc: ak@suse.de, janiceg@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, stekloff@us.ibm.com, girouard@us.ibm.com, lkessler@us.ibm.com, kenistonj@us.ibm.com, jgarzik@pobox.com Subject: Re: patch for common networking error messages Message-Id: <20030616152707.58da808c.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030616.135124.71580008.davem@redhat.com> References: <3EEE28DE.6040808@us.ibm.com> <20030616.133841.35533284.davem@redhat.com> <20030616205342.GH30400@wotan.suse.de> <20030616.135124.71580008.davem@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Jun 2003 22:26:34.0894 (UTC) FILETIME=[584032E0:01C33456] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 760 Lines: 21 "David S. Miller" wrote: > > From: Andi Kleen > Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:53:42 +0200 > > Why? It will make supporting netconsole easier which has to be careful > to never recurse in the network driver. > > printk can check this Actually it already does, to cover the case where an interrupt handler calls printk while process-context code is performing a printk. The nested printk will squirt the message into the log buffer and the "outer" code will display it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/