Re: Assistance debugging a Micrel network driver

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 29/06/07, Greg Huber <ghuber@vanteon.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I hope this is the right place to request some assistance, my apologizes
> if its not.
>
> I'm currently developing a network driver for a new controller chip. The
> driver is mostly complete and appears to be working,
> with the exception that messages received and sent up the stack appear
> to get dropped by a higher layer. Specifically we
> are seeing ARP "who is" requests go out, and the response come back
> (only 2 nodes on this network), the skb is configured
> and the frame is sent up with netif_rx (we haven't started supporting
> NAPI yet). The response seems to get dropped somewhere
> as another ARP "who is" request is sent. I am using the 2.6.21.5 kernel
> (compilied with network debugging turned on) and we
> have also tested with the 2.6.17 kernel, all acted the same.
>
> The upper layers obviously work so I'm sure it's something in my driver.
>
> 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.
>
> Additionally, if anyone has any idea what might be happening, I would
> greatly appreciate any information.
>

You could start by publishing your complete source code. That would
make it a lot more likely that people can help you spot and fix
problems.

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