How to submit for eudyptula-challenge

[Aruna Hewapathirane]

Hi Wangyubin,

You may want to drop by the IRC channel : http://kernelnewbies.org/IRC
has lots of friendly and vastly more experienced folks.

 :)

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:08 PM, wangyubin <harry198344 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Aruna
>
> I will use Checkpatch.pl to check my source file by your advice!
> thanks again!
>
> Best Regards!
> wangyubin
>
>
> On 03/25/2014 10:48 AM, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote:
>>
>> Hi Wangyubin,
>>
>> There is a *reason* why I decided to give you a helping hand my dear,
>>
>>   "I" had a very hard time with that task-01 but it did help me
>> immensely to begin to understand how things work and are done in the
>> kernel. I do not want anyone else to waste time if we can get
>> newcomers up to a certain level of competency where they can
>> contribute to the kernel this world will be a much better place.
>>
>> Run checkpatch.pl and try to resolve all errors and warnings before
>> you sumbit as else little penguin will say uh-uh sorry try again !
>>
>> Checkpatch is your friend and so is Google so use them :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:42 PM, wangyubin <harry198344 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, Aruna
>>>
>>> Thanks for your answer!
>>>
>>> I used printk like this in the previous submit.
>>> printk(KERN_ALERT "Hello World !");
>>>
>>> I will change "KERN_ALERT" to "KERN_DEBUG" and try to submit again!
>>>
>>> also thanks for Masood Mehmood and Parinay Kondekar's help!
>>>
>>> Best Regards!
>>> wangyubin
>>>
>>> On 03/25/2014 10:16 AM, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Wangyubin,
>>>>
>>>> The log level you require is KERN_DEBUG ...
>>>>
>>>> But when you run checkpatch.pl on your *.c file it will say:
>>>>
>>>> WARNING: Prefer netdev_dbg(netdev, ... then dev_dbg(dev, ... then
>>>> pr_debug(...  to printk(KERN_DEBUG ...
>>>>
>>>> So replacing printk(KERN_DEBUG ... with pr_debug will resolve this.
>>>>
>>>> You can find the log files in /var/log and you can list them with ls
>>>> /var/log.
>>>>
>>>> The latest kernel I found has the debug and messages logs disabled by
>>>> default. You can easily rectify this by editing
>>>> /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf. And un-commenting the section :
>>>>
>>>> #*.=debug;\
>>>> #    auth,authpriv.none;\
>>>> #   news.none;mail.none    -/var/log/debug
>>>> #*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
>>>> #    auth,authpriv.none;\
>>>> #    cron,daemon.none;\
>>>> #    mail,news.none        -/var/log/messages
>>>>
>>>> This will give you back the debug and message logs.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck !
>>>>
>>>> Aruna
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:28 PM, wangyubin <harry198344 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> I have dive into the eudyptula-challenge, but when I submit my result
>>>>> for task 01.
>>>>> I received a reply below:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please print to the kernel debug log level.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have sended module(c file), Makefile, and dmesg output for
>>>>> load/unload  the module.
>>>>> Could anyone to tell me what does this message mean?
>>>>> Thanks a lot!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Best Regards!
>>>>> wangyubin
>>>>>
>>>>>
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