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iwlwifi: update comments on how to enable debug flag
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Modify comments on how to enable and change debug_level

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored and John W. Linville committed Oct 14, 2011
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -54,13 +54,13 @@ config IWLWIFI_DEBUG
control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
value in

/sys/class/net/wlan0/device/debug_level
/sys/module/iwlwifi/parameters/debug

This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.

To set a value, simply echo an 8-byte hex value to the same file:

% echo 0x43fff > /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/debug_level
% echo 0x43fff > /sys/module/iwlwifi/parameters/debug

You can find the list of debug mask values in:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debug.h
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8 changes: 5 additions & 3 deletions drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debug.h
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Expand Up @@ -105,10 +105,12 @@ static inline void iwl_dbgfs_unregister(struct iwl_priv *priv)
*
* The active debug levels can be accessed via files
*
* /sys/module/iwlagn/parameters/debug{50}
* /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/debug_level
*
* /sys/module/iwlwifi/parameters/debug
* when CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG=y.
*
* /sys/kernel/debug/phy0/iwlwifi/debug/debug_level
* when CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS=y.
*
*/

/* 0x0000000F - 0x00000001 */
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