Category Archives: /kernel
Runtime configuring printk – stop kernel printk from flooding the console
Sometimes while debugging kernel/module, unnecessary kernel messages keeps flooding console such that you are not able to have access of console in useful manner to check output of a command or do some task. In this case you can configure “printk” at … Continue reading
generic-usb: probe of device failed with error
If you have ever come across an issue like, USB device (specially mouse/keypad/keyboard i.e. input devices) fails to register as input device in the system, when connected at kernel boot up or it is being occasionally recognized and you often have to plug … Continue reading
“__init” in linux kernel
The linux kernel uses well optimized mechanism for calling initialization code for built-in drivers and other kernel features using “__init“ macro. Essentially, the kernel build system looks for all of the functions marked with __init, across all of the code of the kernel, … Continue reading
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