A flow path for ethernet kernel driver

[Rami Rosen]

Hi, Airton,

This is simply a matter of setting dmesg to work with
the level which you need in your setup.
You should set "dmesg -n" to work with the pr_info() level.
Pleas look in man dmesg, for the "-n, --console-level level" part.

If you are in a haste and looking for immediate solution, you can also
try pr_err() instead, as most distros do print such messages with
dmesg without need for any special setup.

Regards,
Rami Rosen
http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen

On 18 May 2015 at 22:23, Airton Ishimori <nobumasa.bcc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, everybody,
>
> I'm trying to develop a new Ethernet driver (Realtek) for Linux kernel
> 4.0.2.
>
> [    3.612938] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
>
> As part of my studies, I'm trying to trace the path for functions defined in
> drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c, net/core/dev.c and
> net/core/dev_ioctl.c. I'm using "printks" for this purpose. For instance,
> something like:
>
> printk("TEST: __dev_set_promiscuity\n");
>
> However, I'm not getting what's going on. I can set/unset the promiscuity
> behaviour via ifconfig command.
>
> [  131.330091] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
> [  170.619086] device eth0 left promiscuous mode
>
> By looking at the dmesg output above, I thought the function that deals with
> promiscuity was __dev_set_promiscuity() defined in net/core/dev.c, because
> this function calls a function to print the message above:
>
> pr_info("device %s %s promiscuous mode\n", dev->name, dev->flags &
> IFF_PROMISC ? "entered" : "left");
>
> But, when I tried to look for my printk message with dmesg after compiling
> and running the kernel, I couldn't find it.
>
> $ cd linux-4.0.2/
> $ make net && make modules
> $ sudo make modules_install && sudo make install
>
> Can somebody help me to understand what's happening?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Airton Ishimori
>
>
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