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
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