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Date:   Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:14:20 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] printk: make sure to print log on console.
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On (06/08/18 10:39), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> It might make sense to document the limitations reported by
> Sergey. I mean to add something like:
> 
> "There are still some corner cases where this patch is not enough,
> for example, when the messages are flushed later from printk_safe
> buffers or when there are races between console_verbose() and
> console_silent() callers."

Agree. Probably a link to the email would also be helpful.

> > reused flag LOG_NOCONS as its usage is gone long back.
> > (5c2992ee7fd8a29d04125dc0aa3522784c5fa5eb)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang <v.narang@samsung.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com>
> 
> Anyway. the patch helps in many situations and it is a step in the right
> direction:

So I'm not objecting the patch and will review it shortly.

For educational purposes only:
Would be appreciated if you guys could point out what those "many
situations" are (in the mainline kernel). Could you do that for me?
This is a real question.

Otherwise it feels like I'm missing the real [mainline kernel] importance
and significance of this patch.

	-ss