Re: printk in init_module mixing with printf in insmod

[Alan Cox]

>   printk("Hello, world\n");
> in the module are intermixed unpleasantly, yielding output like
>     Warning: loHello,ading foo.o world
>     will taint kernel
> 
> This garbled output makes reading the debugging printk's difficult.
> 
> I suppose this isn't terribly important, since printk's are
> kind of a no-no in production, and this only affects printk's
> in init_module, but it'd be nice to know what
> the cleanest way to get rid of the mixing is.  Adding a sleep
> inside insmod seems heavyhanded.  I suppose I could redirect
> insmod's output to a file, sleep a bit, and then display the 
> file... bleah.

Probably you want to fprintf the message after the module initialise has
reported completion, instead of before. I see no good way of hiding it
the other way around.