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On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:44:13 +0900
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:34 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps we should do an audit of the console drivers and remove all
> > printk, pr_* , WARN*, BUG* from them.  
> 
> Only the actual _printing_ parts.

No because they are normally rather useful because that port isn't the
console. If you trylock it as I suggested then at least you'd just drop
the recursive cases and get messages otherwise.

Really that's all that you need - log the message to whichever console
targets you can currently safely do so. If it's none well there was
always the proposed morse code keyboard light driver 8)

Alan