You can either set device name explicitly or you can leave dev->name as it is (starting with null). In later case a suitable name "eth%d" shall be assigned to the device. Regards Mohanlal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mandeep Singh Sandhu" <mandeep_sandhu@infosys.com> To: "Suvidh Mathur" <Suvidh.Mathur@lntinfotech.com>; "Ravi Kumar" <ravivsn@rocsys.com> Cc: <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 3:02 PM Subject: RE: problem in initilisation i don't think so, i have named my device "mss-eth" and it works fine! - /dev/mandeep -----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org]On Behalf Of Suvidh Mathur Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 2:22 PM To: Ravi Kumar Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: problem in initilisation Ravi, I dont know about the divert code, but it seems that ethernet device identification is done on the first 3 letters of the device name, i.e. your device must be named "eth"xxx. Check alloc_divert_blk in dv.c HTH 19/04/2004 1:18 PM To: Suvidh Mathur <Suvidh.Mathur@lntinfotech.com> cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org From: Ravi Kumar <ravivsn@rocsys.com> Subject: Re: problem in initilisation Suvid, Thanks for the information. Now, I allocated memory and the problem seems to be with identification as ethernet device. dmesg shows the below info divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device testdev0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0180040e printing eip: c01f64a4 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 testdriver i810_audio ac97_codec soundcore mousedev input i810 agpgart autofs CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c01f64a4>] Tainted: PF EFLAGS: 00210296 EIP is at __rta_fill [kernel] 0x64 (2.4.18-14) eax: 0000000a ebx: 00000004 ecx: 00000001 edx: c7e21c60 esi: 0180040e edi: c187b060 ebp: 00000008 esp: c676fe1c ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process insmod (pid: 1056, stackpage=c676f000) Stack: 00000000 c0154a30 00000001 0000000a 00000000 c7ba4a00 c034192d c7e21c60 c01f6a6f c7e21c60 0000000a 00000004 0180040e c0341928 00000f10 c0341960 00000010 c187b000 000005dc c7e21c60 c7ba4a00 00000010 ffffffff c01f6ced Call Trace: [<c0154a30>] alloc_inode [kernel] 0xa0 (0xc676fe20)) [<c01f6a6f>] rtnetlink_fill_ifinfo [kernel] 0x37f (0xc676fe3c)) [<c01f6ced>] rtmsg_ifinfo [kernel] 0x5d (0xc676fe78)) [<c01f6f7f>] rtnetlink_event [kernel] 0x2f (0xc676fea4)) [<c012613d>] notifier_call_chain [kernel] 0x2d (0xc676feb4)) [<c01f2585>] register_netdevice [kernel] 0x115 (0xc676fed0)) [<c8e5d2f4>] init_module [testdriver] 0x130 (0xc676feec)) [<c8e5d526>] .rodata [testdriver] 0x86 (0xc676fef4)) [<c011bf79>] sys_init_module [kernel] 0x4d9 (0xc676ff1c)) [<c8e5d060>] test_open [testdriver] 0x0 (0xc676ff20)) [<c8e5d060>] test_open [testdriver] 0x0 (0xc676ff58)) [<c010910f>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xc676ffc0)) Code: f3 a5 f6 c3 02 74 02 66 a5 f6 c3 01 74 01 a4 8b 5c 24 10 8b Thanks in advance, -Ravi Suvidh Mathur wrote: >Hi, >At first glance, I could not find where you have allocated your netdevice >structure. The struct test_struct contains a pointer to net_device, but >where are you allocating it? > >Regards, > > > >19/04/2004 10:53 AM >To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org >cc: >From: Ravi Kumar <ravivsn@rocsys.com> >Subject: problem in initilisation > > > >HI, >I wrote one character device which should create network device. When I >do insmod it gave a segmentation fault and lsmod shows initializing. > >A dmesg shows: > >EIP is at init_module [testdriver] 0xa6 (2.4.18-14) >eax: 00000000 ebx: ffffffea ecx: c05b6000 edx: c8e7f4d3 >esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: c672df18 esp: c672df00 >ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 >Process insmod (pid: 9922, stackpage=c672d000) >Stack: 00200206 ffffffff 00002f3f c05b6940 00000000 00000000 c8e7f000 >c011bf79 > c8e7f060 08075228 00000908 00000000 080756f4 0000052c 00000060 > 00000060 > 0000000a c05b6c40 c6231000 c6e7e000 00000060 c8def000 c8e7f060 > 00000968 > Call Trace: [<c011bf79>] sys_init_module [kernel] 0x4d9 >(0xc672df1c)) > [<c8e7f060>] test_open [testdriver] 0x0 (0xc672df20)) > [<c8e7f060>] test_open [testdriver] 0x0 (0xc672df58)) > [<c010910f>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xc672dfc0)) > > >Code: c7 40 34 fe f0 e7 c8 83 ec 08 68 d4 f4 e7 c8 8b 45 f4 ff 30 > > >I am attaching the code, pls help me to solve this problem. >Thanks a lot, >-Ravi > >#ifndef __KERNEL__ ># define __KERNEL__ >#endif > >#ifndef MODULE ># define MODULE >#endif > >#define DEVNAME "testdev" > >#include <linux/module.h> >#include <linux/kernel.h> >#include <linux/fs.h> >#include <linux/slab.h> > >#include <linux/netdevice.h> >#include <linux/if_ether.h> > > > >int test_open(struct inode *,struct file *); >int test_release(struct inode *,struct file*); > > >struct test_struct{ >struct net_device *dev; >char name[IFNAMSIZ]; >}; > > > >struct file_operations test_fop={ >llseek: NULL, >read: NULL, >write: NULL, >ioctl: NULL, >open: test_open, >release: test_release, >}; > > > >int test_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep) >{ > MOD_INC_USE_COUNT; > return 0; >} > >int test_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep) >{ > MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT; > return 0; >} > >int testdev_open(struct net_device *dev) >{ > MOD_INC_USE_COUNT; > return 0; >} > >int testdev_close(struct net_device *dev) >{ > unregister_netdev(dev); > MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT; > return 0; >} > >static int test_init_dev(struct net_device *dev) >{ > struct test_struct *c; > > dev->priv = kmalloc(sizeof(struct net_device),GFP_KERNEL); > if(!dev->priv) > { > printk(KERN_ERR "out of memory while allocating to dev->priv\n"); > return -ENOMEM; > } > c = (struct test_struct *)dev->priv; > if(!c) > return -ENODEV; > > memset(c,0,sizeof(struct test_struct)); > c->dev = dev; > ether_setup(dev); > > dev->open = testdev_open; > dev->stop = testdev_close; > dev->mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN; > dev_init_buffers(dev); > return 0; >} > > >int init_module(void) >{ > int result,i; > > struct test_struct *pTestStruct; > result = register_chrdev(16,"test",&test_fop); > if( result < 0 ){ > printk(KERN_WARNING "test: cant get major\n"); > return result; > } > pTestStruct = (struct test_struct *)kmalloc(sizeof( struct > test_struct),GFP_KERNEL); > if(!pTestStruct) > { > printk(KERN_ERR "failed to allocate memory\n"); > return -ENOMEM; > } > > memset((void *)pTestStruct,0,sizeof(pTestStruct)); > sprintf(pTestStruct->name, DEVNAME); > file://pTestStruct->dev->priv = pTestStruct; > pTestStruct->dev->init = test_init_dev; > > i = dev_alloc_name(pTestStruct->dev,"testdev%d"); > if(i < 0 ) > { > printk(KERN_ERR "cant allocate device\n"); > return -ENODEV; > } > i = register_netdevice((pTestStruct->dev)); > if( i < 0 ) > printk(KERN_ERR "register netdevice failed\n"); > > return 0; > } > >void cleanup_module(void) >{ > > unregister_chrdev(16,"test"); > } > > > > > > > >(Attachments removed) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >This email may contain confidential or privileged information for the >intended recipient(s). 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