On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Or we could give something up. Like giving up printk altogether [not
> > good] or declaring that printk is emergency-only and may mess up
> > screen.
>
> Or declaring classes of printk - those which are critical and those which
> arent.
Note that printk() during normal kernel operations _is_ a bug.
printk() should happen only for (a) initialization and (b) exceptional
events. I fyou get printk's while doing streaming audio, you have other
trouble, and whatever causes that trouble should be fixed.
Linus
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