Re: [PATCH 2.6] Fix dev_printk to work with unclaimed devices

[Deepak Saxena]

On Feb 26 2004, at 10:53, Greg KH was caught saying:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:34:39AM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> > 
> > I need to do some fixup in platform_notify() and when trying to 
> > use the dev_* print functions for informational messages, they OOPs 
> > b/c the current code assumes that dev->driver exists. This is not the 
> > case since platform_notify() is called before a device has been attached
> > to any driver. 
> 
> Yeah, this "limitation" of the dev_* printks have been known for a
> while, and it was determined that for situations like this, it's not
> worth using those calls.

I can just use printks as it is only two quick log messages at
init time.

Tnx,
~Deepak

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Deepak Saxena - dsaxena at plexity dot net - http://www.plexity.net/
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