Let's take a look at a group of codes:
#undef PDEBUG /* undef it, just in case */ #ifdef SCULL_DEBUG # ifdef __KERNEL__ /* This one if debugging is on, and kernel space */ # define PDEBUG(fmt, args...) printk( KERN_DEBUG "scull: " fmt, ## args) # else /* This one for user space */ # define PDEBUG(fmt, args...) fprintf(stderr, fmt, ## args) # endif #else # define PDEBUG(fmt, args...) /* not debugging: nothing */ #endif
these few lines of codes defined macros used for SCULL_DEBUG: PDEBUG.
note the kernel space version and user space version.