Re: [PATCH 1/2] ath9k_htc: Dump base eeprom header for UB91/94/95

[Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>]

On Friday 29 April 2011 03:19:21 Sujith wrote:
> Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 April 2011 10:58:33 Sujith wrote:
> > > From: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
> > > 
> > > Debugfs file location: <debugfs_mnt>/ieee80211/phy#/ath9k_htc/base_eeprom
> > > 
> > If you just want to dump the eeprom, then why not with a userspace utility?
> > It's pretty easy to write such a thing with libusb, furthermore it's more
> > versatile and portable so the *BSD-folks are not left out!
> 
> We do have an eeprom dump tool for PCI cards, but hardly any one uses
> that. 
Oh, I used ath_info for ath5k a lot. Especially to get around regdom restrictions.
Sure, your tool won't be able to do that, but never the less.

> It's much more convenient to use debugging features that are present
> in the driver itself. On an embedded board, it makes things a little bit easier.
Do you really think that everyone will be happy to recompile their stripped & heavily 
customised embedded kernels/or compat-wireless just to enable DEBUG and
waste precious resources? Even with a PC, this is not necessarily straightforward,
especially if the user has never done it before.

Regards,
	Chr