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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:32:26 +0200
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Subject: Re: 4.14 backport request for dbdda842fe96f: "printk: Add console
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On Sun 2018-10-21 11:09:22, Daniel Wang wrote:
> Just got back from vacation. Thanks for the continued discussion. Just so
> I understand the current state. Looks like we've got a pretty good explanation
> of what's going on (though not completely sure), and backporting Steven's
> patches is still the way to go? I see that Sergey had sent an RFC series
> for similar things. Are those trying to solve the deadlock problem in a
> different way?On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 1:55 AM Sergey Senozhatsky

I suggest to go with backporting Steven's patchset. We do not have
anything better at the moment.

Best Regards,
Petr