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Subject: Use of printf's inside a kernel thread
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Just wondering if there is some constraints to using printf() calls
inside a kernel thread (created by kthread_create()).  I'm currently
trying to debug a worker thread but the printf's are coming out
garbled.  Not entirely sure why this could be occurring.

OS: FreeBSD 7.3 on an Intel Xeon with 8 Gbytes of memory.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Patrick