Re: [PATCH] console_print: change the function api to make it haveprintk style interface

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Anirban Sinha wrote:
>  
> -void console_print(const char *s)
> +int console_print(const char *fmt, ...)
>  {
> -	printk(KERN_EMERG "%s", s);
> +	va_list args;
> +	int r;
> +	char _fmt[1024] = KERN_EMERG;

Don't do this. That's a 1kB stack frame right there. You'll overflow the 
stack very quickly.

			Linus
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