Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 17:11:20 EST


On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Or we could give something up. Like giving up printk altogether [not
> > good] or declaring that printk is emergency-only and may mess up
> > screen.
>
> Or declaring classes of printk - those which are critical and those which
> arent.

Note that printk() during normal kernel operations _is_ a bug.

printk() should happen only for (a) initialization and (b) exceptional
events. I fyou get printk's while doing streaming audio, you have other
trouble, and whatever causes that trouble should be fixed.

                Linus

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