how to use printk()

[Colin Charles]

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 00:25 +0530, abhijit kumar wrote:

> please tell me where should i look for output from printk(). I was
> thinking that i should get into the console when i will use "make
> bzImage" to compile modified sched.c . I have also looked in
> /etc/sysconfig/syslog but i did n't get any information there.

It will be in /var/log/messages

And only when the scheduler actually reaches your printk will there be
any useful printk output in /var/log/messages

Also, unpack the kernel tarball, look under
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt for more information about printk (and
its usage)
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