Hi Luis, Many thanks for your prompt and helpfulresponse! > Do you have the relevant DEBUG macros activated in your kernel's > configuration? Perhaps not... > https://www.kernel.org/doc/local/pr_debug.txt Read this, thanks. But that has nothing to do with KConfigmacros, has it? > http://elinux.org/Debugging_by_printing > > If not, activate them. Or if in a pinch, switch to using pr_alert() for > development. What surprises me is that I made sue the message appears inthe .ko file and it was there,whereas it seems pr_debug discards its argument at compile time. Or is it at execution time? Thanks! Sébastien. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies