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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] printk: Add config option for disabling printk
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:28:15 +0100 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:

> > All the afflicted consoles are serial, all go via the uart layer as far
> > as I can see.
> > 
> > The uart layer has a queue mechanism that could be used
>   I'm sorry, I don't follow here - what can the uart queueing be used for?

Alan, I'm desperate to avoid adding all this complexity to core printk
code to solve such a rare problem.  It'd be great if you could flesh out
any alternative ideas please.