On Mon, 2 May 2011, Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 10:31:54PM +0530, Vikram Narayanan wrote:
i'm getting ready to teach a basic device drivers course in a couple weeks with someone else's courseware and i just wanted to bring some sections up to date. there's one section on basic debugging that covers printk() as well as other topics from LDD3 such as printk_ratelimit(), setting the console loglevel and so on.
however, there's obviously more these days -- the "pr_"-prefixed wrappers, dev_dbg() and so on. is there a single source that covers the standard debugging routines in the kernel these days? if not, no big deal, i'll just summarize what i know of.
Don't forget the dynamic printk stuff, that's very powerful stuff that people tend to forget about.
i'd already made a note of that. and to the earlier poster, i'm aware of other debugging tools, i was just trying to summarize the variations of simple printing/logging for now. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================