Re: [patch] printk subsystems

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:03:47PM -0700, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:
> 
> Yep, that is the point, and it is small enough (5 ulongs) that 
> it can be embedded anywhere without being of high impact and 
> having to allocate it [first example that comes to mind is
> for sending a device connection message; you can embed a short
> message in the device structure and query that for delivery;
> no buffer, no nothing, the data straight from the source].

And the device is removed from the system, the memory for that device is
freed, and then a user comes along and trys to read that message.

oops...  :)

greg k-h