On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 06:23:31PM -0500, Chester Rebeiro wrote: > Thanks for the many replies. The code is compiling as a kernel module... Ehm, then why is that main() in the code? There really isn't such thing as executing main() in kernel. I think you should download a copy of the Rubini Device Driver book (for a pointer, see http://www.kernelnewbies.org/books.php3 ). > and is also getting inserted ...however the printk doesn't seem to print > to the linux console...i have used > printk("<1> ....\n"); Well, that doesn't surprise me if you only use main() as your function. Kernel modules are initialised with module_init(init_function). Have a look at a simple module, like my procfs example in Documentation/DocBook/procfs_example.c . BTW: don't use "<1>" directly but use definitions like KERN_ALERT and friends from include/linux/kernel.h. In that way you are still source level compatible when the kernel hackers decide on a different way to denote the log levels. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
