On Saturday 10 February 2007 23:21, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:31:20PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > libc's printf has an enormous stack usage, so that my_printf is used for > > direct output instead of printf; if this is ok because it's bootup > > code, > > It is bootup code only. > > > then *fatal* should be marked as "bootup code only"; > > OK. > > > otherwise > > we may reuse vsprintf() and write() or fputs(); this should match > > what happens in my_printf, to avoid any unlikely problem with libc's > > buffering. > > Offhand, I would say that if we are on a kernel stack, printk is safe > to use, and should be used, so there's no need for things like > my_printf. Maybe there are some exceptions in early boot when the > kernel is running, but before the console is working, but I can't > think of any problems we've had like that.
It's for no_config_chan (don't recall the right name), i.e. for when the console will never work because of a misconfiguration. Indeed it's static (and otherwise it ought to have a better name!). -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can add them to my list! Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
