Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> writes:
> In some email I received from matthew green, sie wrote:
> > yunno, all this run as threads, etc, stuff that we have now makes for
> > annoying console/kernel messages.  things are printed in the middle of
> > other things.  last time i updated my lapdog and booted with both an
> > ep and a xircom ether+modem card, the ep0 and com2 probes printed
> > all over each other so much that i was very unsure about what applied
> > to what, and looked really ugly (the lapdog is dead right now)...
> > 
> > 
> > i wonder, is there any nice way to ensure these messages are printed
> > in a sane fashion?  it is really annoying :-(
> 
> console output should be serialized, curtesy of locking...

console output _is_ serialized, courtesy of locking.

printf("foo bar baz") won't have other stuff interspersed in it (or at
least, won't if there aren't bugs 8-).

However, what's the right thing to do for
	printf("foo "); printf("bar "); printf("baz");

right now, each of those separately acquires and releases the relevant
lock, and so can be split up.

It's not obvious to me how to tell, in a safe and sane way, the kernel
printf bits to 'group' those so they're printed out together, but the
kernel (esp in the autoconf code) isn't structured so that all of the
places which print related stuff can be coalesced into a single kernel
printf call...


cgd
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