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    SubjectRE: [PATCH printk v1 09/13] printk: add functions to allow direct printing
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    > On Mon 2022-02-07 20:49:19, John Ogness wrote:
    > > Once kthread printing is introduced, console printing will no longer
    > > occur in the context of the printk caller. However, there are some
    > > special contexts where it is desirable for the printk caller to
    > > directly print out kernel messages.

    Yes - most of them.

    It is going to be pretty impossible to do 'hard' kernel debugging
    if printk get deferred.

    Typically there already is a deferral method.
    The prints aren't done by the kernel, but by syslogd.

    David

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