printk insists on dumping the kernel priority level WITH the message if a newline isn't included in the printk string. While trying to print out a list of bytes via a for loop of this type: for (loop through char [] 0 to i) { printk (KERN_INFO "char[i]"); } printk("\n"); I end up with something like this: <6>1<6>1<6>0<6>1<6>1<6>1<6>0<6>1<6>1<6>0 Surely there must be some way to avoid this stupid behavior. - 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/