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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:56:52 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] printk: Console owner and waiter logic cleanup
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:40:23 +0900
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why do we even use irq_work for printk_safe?

Why not?

Really, I think you are trying to solve a symptom and not the problem.
If we are having issues with irq_work, we are going to have issues with
a work queue. It's just spreading out the problem instead of fixing it.

-- Steve

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