Rebuilding a kernel module(driver) with debugging
I have been trying for the past day to rebuild my iwlwifi modules with debugging enabled. The way to do this is to build with the .config param CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG=y. If I was building a new kernel this would be easy, but I want to keep using the installed ubuntu kernel. At the moment I don’t care about installing the modules. I just want to see the .ko files build, insmod them, and check for /sys/modules/iwlwifi/parameters/debug which should exist if the modules are built for debugging. What’s the official ubuntu way of doing this?
So far, this is what I’m doing:
My kernel is 4.15.0-43-generic, headers are already installed in /usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-43-generic
Installed /usr/src/linux-source-4.15.0 with apt-get and unpacked it to ~/
Set CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG=y in ~/linux-4.15.0/.config and /usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-43-generic/.config because I’m not sure which would be used.
In ~/linux-4.15.0/drivers/net/.../iwlwifi, I run make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$(pwd) modules
ko modules build, but they aren’t debug-enabled
drivers kernel
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I have been trying for the past day to rebuild my iwlwifi modules with debugging enabled. The way to do this is to build with the .config param CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG=y. If I was building a new kernel this would be easy, but I want to keep using the installed ubuntu kernel. At the moment I don’t care about installing the modules. I just want to see the .ko files build, insmod them, and check for /sys/modules/iwlwifi/parameters/debug which should exist if the modules are built for debugging. What’s the official ubuntu way of doing this?
So far, this is what I’m doing:
My kernel is 4.15.0-43-generic, headers are already installed in /usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-43-generic
Installed /usr/src/linux-source-4.15.0 with apt-get and unpacked it to ~/
Set CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG=y in ~/linux-4.15.0/.config and /usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-43-generic/.config because I’m not sure which would be used.
In ~/linux-4.15.0/drivers/net/.../iwlwifi, I run make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$(pwd) modules
ko modules build, but they aren’t debug-enabled
drivers kernel
asked Jan 15 at 17:49
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I have been trying for the past day to rebuild my iwlwifi modules with debugging enabled. The way to do this is to build with the .config param CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG=y. If I was building a new kernel this would be easy, but I want to keep using the installed ubuntu kernel. At the moment I don’t care about installing the modules. I just want to see the .ko files build, insmod them, and check for /sys/modules/iwlwifi/parameters/debug which should exist if the modules are built for debugging. What’s the official ubuntu way of doing this?
So far, this is what I’m doing:
My kernel is 4.15.0-43-generic, headers are already installed in /usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-43-generic
Installed /usr/src/linux-source-4.15.0 with apt-get and unpacked it to ~/
Set CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG=y in ~/linux-4.15.0/.config and /usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-43-generic/.config because I’m not sure which would be used.
In ~/linux-4.15.0/drivers/net/.../iwlwifi, I run make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$(pwd) modules
ko modules build, but they aren’t debug-enabled
drivers kernel
asked Jan 15 at 17:49
zallikzallik
63
I have been trying for the past day to rebuild my iwlwifi modules with debugging enabled. The way to do this is to build with the .config param CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG=y. If I was building a new kernel this would be easy, but I want to keep using the installed ubuntu kernel. At the moment I don’t care about installing the modules. I just want to see the .ko files build, insmod them, and check for /sys/modules/iwlwifi/parameters/debug which should exist if the modules are built for debugging. What’s the official ubuntu way of doing this?
So far, this is what I’m doing:
My kernel is 4.15.0-43-generic, headers are already installed in /usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-43-generic
Installed /usr/src/linux-source-4.15.0 with apt-get and unpacked it to ~/
Set CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG=y in ~/linux-4.15.0/.config and /usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-43-generic/.config because I’m not sure which would be used.
In ~/linux-4.15.0/drivers/net/.../iwlwifi, I run make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$(pwd) modules
ko modules build, but they aren’t debug-enabled
drivers kernel
drivers kernel
asked Jan 15 at 17:49
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asked Jan 15 at 17:49
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asked Jan 15 at 17:49
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Turns out I needed to run make scripts in the headers dir. It exits with failure, but I guess it does whatever it needs to with the build params first.
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Turns out I needed to run make scripts in the headers dir. It exits with failure, but I guess it does whatever it needs to with the build params first.
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Turns out I needed to run make scripts in the headers dir. It exits with failure, but I guess it does whatever it needs to with the build params first.
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Turns out I needed to run make scripts in the headers dir. It exits with failure, but I guess it does whatever it needs to with the build params first.
answered Jan 16 at 6:07
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Turns out I needed to run make scripts in the headers dir. It exits with failure, but I guess it does whatever it needs to with the build params first.
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