On 4/25/07, Michael D. Kralka <michael.kralka at kvs.com> wrote: > > I am going to regret answering this, because it is not the right place > for such questions. However... True, but thank you for the post. > I suspect you are misusing printk and the KERN_XXX prefixes (KERN_DEBUG, > KERN_ERR, KERN_INFO, etc.) defined in include/linux/kernel.h. Try > dropping the comma between the prefix and the message. That is: > printk(KERN_INFO "Hello World!\n"); > rather than: > printk(KERN_INFO, "Hello World!\n"); I would hate to admit that a typo was "misusing" something, but this was the problem - one of the 35 traces I have in place was mistyped with a comma after the KERN_DEBUG. I think staring at them allowed me to miss this the first four or five times through, and, of course, it was the last one I added - the one that was not supposed to appear at all. -- Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-330-7691 - fax