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Reputation: 13

Kernel Module: No printk messages showing. Is init function being called?

I have a simple module, written as follows:

#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

static int __init hellomod_init(void)
{
    printk(KERN_DEBUG, "Hello, world!\n");
    return 0;
}

static void __exit hellomod_exit(void)
{
    printk(KERN_DEBUG, "Goodbye, world!");
}

module_init(hellomod_init);
module_exit(hellomod_exit);

and

$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
7        7        7        7

so that any level messages should output.

The module loads and this can be verified with lsmod, however no output is produced when loading or unloading the module and checking dmesg.

I have tried replacing KERN_DEBUG with lower levels and still no output, so I don't think the log level is the issue.

How else can I verify the hellomod_init() function is called? If it is not being called, what is my error?

I am running and compiling against kernel version 4.6.1-2 on Arch Linux.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 954

Answers (1)

Yam Marcovic
Yam Marcovic

Reputation: 8141

There shouldn't be a comma after KERN_DEBUG. So it should look something like this:

static int __init hellomod_init(void)
{
    printk(KERN_DEBUG "Hello, world!\n");
    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 3

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