[patch-2.3.40-pre6] kzalloc() (ala kmem_zalloc() of SVR4)

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

In message <Pine.SV4.3.96.1000122113149.17095C-100000 en scofolks.ocston.org>, 
Tig
ran Aivazian writes:
+-----
| > Why do we have printk anyway?  It serves the same purpose as printf and
| > is even tagged as `taking arguments like printf' for gcc's type-checking
| > benefit.
| 
| It is actually subtly different (the <N> priority thing) which I always
| thought was the reason why printk() is not called printf(). It is not
+--->8

printk() predates support for priorities in kernel messages.  I vaguely 
recall it being related to "don't link libc into the kernel", but don't 
quote me on that.

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