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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition
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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition

by Alex González
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
12h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Linux drivers do not use the printk function directly. They use, in order of preference, subsystem-specific messages (such as netdev or v4l) or the dev_* and pr_* family of functions. The latter are described in the following table:

Device message

Generic message

Printk symbol

dev_emerg

pr_emerg

KERN_EMERG

dev_alert

pr_alert

KERN_ALERT

dev_crit

pr_crit

KERN_CRIT

dev_err

pr_err

KERN_ERR

dev_warn

pr_warn

KERN_WARNING

dev_notice

pr_notice

KERN_NOTICE

dev_info

pr_info

KERN_INFO

dev_dbg

pr_debug

KERN_DEBUG

 

To enable the debug messages within a driver, you may do either of the following:

  • Define DEBUG in a macro before any other header file in your driver ...
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