Re: printk in a driver - ide.c

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@ragingbull.com>]

I checked /var/log/messages, I just wasn't sure what they meant by 'log
book' in man printk. Most probably I wasn't running X. I didn't setup any
priopity. So, it looks like the driver is not invoked, right? Any ideas
why?

Thanks
Guennadi

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Amit D Chaudhary wrote:

> printk should be enough.
> There is another possiblity, incase you are using X-Window instead of console 
> the messages might be going to /var/log/messages.
>> I am trying to see what's going on inside the ioctl() called by hdparm -d1
>> /dev/hda. It seems to me that the routine that should be called on this  is
>> set_using_dma() in ide.c. So I edited it and inserted a couple of
>> printk() calls, one in the very beginning. But nothing is printed. So,
...
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski@sheffield.ac.uk



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