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From: Arrigo Benedetti <arrigo@vision•caltech.edu>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: printk problems
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:50:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41898ADC.5080707@vision.caltech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1099522581.31629.84.camel@gaston>

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 12:13 -0800, Arrigo Benedetti wrote:
>  
>
>>For some reason I can't get printk() to work on a YDL 4.0 system. I have 
>>followed all the instructions, like
>>setting the correct log level in /proc/sys/kernel/printk, killing klogd 
>>and then
>>
>>cat /proc/kmsg
>>
>>but I do not see any message from printk. The printk is in a new kernel 
>>system call that I wrote.
>>Any ideas?
>>    
>>
>
>Are you sure you are reaching your syscall at all ? Besides, why are you
>adding a syscall in the first place ? (just curious ... it's usually the
>wrong solution :)
>
>  
>

I'm pretty sure that the syscall is called, in fact at some point there 
was a bug in the code which
froze the system... I made a syscall just to do some quick timing tests. 
I agree that a module is a
better solution, and in fact I have just posted a message about that...

-Arrigo

      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-04  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-03 20:13 printk problems Arrigo Benedetti
2004-11-03 22:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-04  1:50   ` Arrigo Benedetti [this message]

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