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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	"John W . Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] wireless: Driver for 60GHz card wil6210
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:04:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1351695876.10946.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1952560.nYyRnDKWFr@lx-vladimir>

On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 17:00 +0200, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:

> you just proved reason to be CC'ed: you give valuable feedback :-)

:)

> Oh, no! Usually, you start digging into ISR registers when something stalled 
> when it should not. At this point, you want to discover that, for example, 
> some interrupt bit not came up. Then, you may try to manually set it writing 
> into register. If you trace, it will flood dmesg, impacting performance, in 
> normal situation; and will not let you analyze and recover from abnormal one.

Well I wasn't thinking printk, but rather trace events, so you can
record it to the buffer and not have the big overhead etc.

> I need "manual control" here.

Fair enough.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-31 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-29 11:58 [PATCH v2 0/2] driver for 60g Wilocity chip wil6210 Vladimir Kondratiev
2012-10-29 11:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] wireless: Driver for 60GHz card wil6210 Vladimir Kondratiev
2012-10-31  1:23   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-10-31 12:57     ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2012-10-31 13:03       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-10-31 14:27       ` Johannes Berg
2012-10-31 15:00         ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2012-10-31 15:04           ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-10-31 15:14       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-10-31 17:25         ` Christian Lamparter
2012-10-31 18:53           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-10-31 14:29   ` Gábor Stefanik
2012-10-31 14:52     ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2012-10-29 11:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] wireless: integrate wil6210 driver into build structure Vladimir Kondratiev

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