linux-kernel - Re: kernel losing printk messages?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:35:17 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Szekeres István <szekeres@....hu>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel losing printk messages?

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 :)

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs