From 3c61a8ea5294a761003e734c6a2e0625b46344fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:49:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] explain the kdebug value a bit better --- pppd/pppd.8 | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8 index baf3da5..532c194 100644 --- a/pppd/pppd.8 +++ b/pppd/pppd.8 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\" manual page [] for pppd 2.4 -.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.56 2001/03/09 01:01:26 paulus Exp $ +.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.57 2001/03/12 22:49:25 paulus Exp $ .\" SH section heading .\" SS subsection heading .\" LP paragraph @@ -457,7 +457,11 @@ default value is 3. .TP .B kdebug \fIn Enable debugging code in the kernel-level PPP driver. The argument -\fIn\fR is a number which is the sum of the following values: 1 to +values depend on the specific kernel driver, but in general a value of +1 will enable general kernel debug messages. (Note that these +messages are usually only useful for debugging the kernel driver +itself.) For the Linux 2.2.x kernel driver, the value is a sum of +bits: 1 to enable general debug messages, 2 to request that the contents of received packets be printed, and 4 to request that the contents of transmitted packets be printed. On most systems, messages printed by -- 2.39.2