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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Greg Huber <ghuber@vanteon.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Assistance debugging a Micrel network driver
Date: 29 Jun 2007 19:20:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73ejju4r06.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468527A2.40909@vanteon.com>

Greg Huber <ghuber@vanteon.com> writes:
> 
> The upper layers obviously work so I'm sure it's something in my driver.

netstat -s output might give some clue. Most packet drop
points have a counter.

> 
> I have turned on as much debugging in the kernel as I could find, but
> I get no messages. Could someone please let me know if
> there is additional debugging I should consider or if there is a
> dynamic way to turn on debugging in L2 and/or L3.

The usual is to just add printks to the kernel source code until you
find where the packet is dropped.

Or perhaps check in __kfree_skb if the skb is coming from your
driver and force a backtrace with show_stack().

-Andi

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-29 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-29 15:39 Assistance debugging a Micrel network driver Greg Huber
2007-06-29 16:02 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-29 17:20 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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