RE: [PATCH printk v1 09/13] printk: add functions to allow direct printing

[David Laight]

> On Mon 2022-02-07 20:49:19, John Ogness wrote:
> > Once kthread printing is introduced, console printing will no longer
> > occur in the context of the printk caller. However, there are some
> > special contexts where it is desirable for the printk caller to
> > directly print out kernel messages.

Yes - most of them.

It is going to be pretty impossible to do 'hard' kernel debugging
if printk get deferred.

Typically there already is a deferral method.
The prints aren't done by the kernel, but by syslogd.

	David

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