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SubjectRe: dumb question: How to create your own log files in a kernel module?
Thanks for kind help. 

I know printk can do this job. But what I really want is to print logs
to a file specified by me instead of /var/log/messages. And, the
messages irrelevant to my module should not be written into that file.
Now my log mixed with other logs in /var/log/message, which bother me
much. :(

I guess the KERN_PRIVATE might work for this. Can you give me more details?

Thanks again!

Xin

On 4/28/05, Richard B. Johnson <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Xin Zhao wrote:
>
> > Can anyone give me a hand? or point me to somewhere I can find related
> > information?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Xin
>
> printk(KERN_XXX"whatever") was designed for this.
>
> #define KERN_EMERG "<0>" /* system is unusable */
> #define KERN_ALERT "<1>" /* action must be taken immediately */
> #define KERN_CRIT "<2>" /* critical conditions */
> #define KERN_ERR "<3>" /* error conditions */
> #define KERN_WARNING "<4>" /* warning conditions */
> #define KERN_NOTICE "<5>" /* normal but significant condition */
> #define KERN_INFO "<6>" /* informational */
> #define KERN_DEBUG "<7>" /* debug-level messages */
> printk(KERN_DEBUG fmt,##arg)
> printk(KERN_INFO fmt,##arg)
>
> You could define your own, KERN_PRIVATE "<8>" and have the syslog
> facility filter on that.
>
> Other ways are to write stuff to a buffer or linked-list and
> read it out using an ioctl() or read() in your module. If you
> do this, make sure that your module code doesn't wait forever
> if the buffer gets full.
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
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