From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Claudio Fontana Subject: [PATCH] net/ipv4/ipconfig: add device address to a KERN_INFO message Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:13:49 +0200 Message-ID: <5088E6AD.2040302@huawei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: "David S. Miller" Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org adds a "hwaddr" to the "IP-Config: Complete" KERN_INFO message with the dev_addr of the device selected for auto configuration. Signed-off-by: Claudio Fontana --- net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c index 798358b..d763701 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c @@ -1500,8 +1500,10 @@ static int __init ip_auto_config(void) * Clue in the operator. */ pr_info("IP-Config: Complete:\n"); - pr_info(" device=%s, addr=%pI4, mask=%pI4, gw=%pI4\n", - ic_dev->name, &ic_myaddr, &ic_netmask, &ic_gateway); + + pr_info(" device=%s, hwaddr=%*phC, ipaddr=%pI4, mask=%pI4, gw=%pI4\n", + ic_dev->name, ic_dev->addr_len, ic_dev->dev_addr, + &ic_myaddr, &ic_netmask, &ic_gateway); pr_info(" host=%s, domain=%s, nis-domain=%s\n", utsname()->nodename, ic_domain, utsname()->domainname); pr_info(" bootserver=%pI4, rootserver=%pI4, rootpath=%s", -- 1.7.4.4 Hello, while troubleshooting an issue I was having trying to mount the root filesystem using nfsroot running on a software emulation (solved), I found it useful to be able to see the selected device address in the "IP-Config: Complete" message during boot as I was troubleshooting, and I thought it might be good in general, and a good way to try to submit my first patch :) The patch is against latest mainline. Thank you for your help and comments, Claudio Fontana