Always run "dmesg" with sudo

The dmesg command allows you to review the messages that are stored in the
ring buffer. Some Linux distributions have strict requirements for
dmesg, and you need to use sudo to use dmesg.

diff --git a/lkmpg.tex b/lkmpg.tex
index 786913948eb6164c32433b19a2e80a69a6e9da4a..85357e289468e6d3f62c5460e935b626c6e67dbd 100644 (file)
--- a/lkmpg.tex
+++ b/lkmpg.tex
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ It takes two parameters: a variable name and a free form string describing that
 I would recommend playing around with this code:
 \begin{verbatim}
 $ sudo insmod hello-5.ko mystring="bebop" myintarray=-1
-$ dmesg -t | tail -7
+$ sudo dmesg -t | tail -7
 myshort is a short integer: 1
 myint is an integer: 420
 mylong is a long integer: 9999
@@ -422,11 +422,11 @@ myintarray[1] = 420
 got 1 arguments for myintarray.
 
 $ sudo rmmod hello-5
-$ dmesg -t | tail -1
+$ sudo dmesg -t | tail -1
 Goodbye, world 5
 
 $ sudo insmod hello-5.ko mystring="supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" myintarray=-1,-1
-$ dmesg -t | tail -7
+$ sudo dmesg -t | tail -7
 myshort is a short integer: 1
 myint is an integer: 420
 mylong is a long integer: 9999
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ myintarray[1] = -1
 got 2 arguments for myintarray.
 
 $ sudo rmmod hello-5
-$ dmesg -t | tail -1
+$ sudo dmesg -t | tail -1
 Goodbye, world 5
 
 $ sudo insmod hello-5.ko mylong=hello
@@ -1684,12 +1684,11 @@ Here is a demonstration of how to calculate a sha256 hash within a kernel module
 
 \samplec{examples/cryptosha256.c}
 
-Make and install the module:
+Install the module:
 
 \begin{codebash}
-make
 sudo insmod cryptosha256.ko
-dmesg
+sudo dmesg
 \end{codebash}
 
 And you should see that the hash was calculated for the test string.