Re: kernel losing printk messages?

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Feb 26 2008 - 16:35:37 EST


On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Szekeres István wrote:

> in 2.6.25-rc3 I'm trying to add support for an usb keyboard. While the
> hid-input driver dumps a lot of debugging messages, lines seem to be
> lost. Please see the lines shorter/longer than the average.

Hi,

I don't see this on 2.6.25-rc3. Does this happen only on boot? What if you
do

rmmod usbhid
rmmod hid
modprobe hid debug=1
modprobe usbhid

on already booted system?

> This is directly copied from /var/log/kern.log.

I guess in dmesg the output is also corrupted, right?

> Is this a bug or a feature? :)

It would be a sad feature indeed :)

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs