For my understanding, what printk() effectively does usually is simply copying the logging message to a memory cache. The Job of displaying and put the message to log files are usually done in some other process contexts. So I think it is safe. 2007/1/21, Ramagudi Naziir <naziirr@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hello. I experience weird timing problems due to printks in interrup context. is it legal to use printk there ? is there an alternative ? Thank You naziir -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
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