From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail2.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.173]:34709 "EHLO mail2.candelatech.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751326AbaFEP7F (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:59:05 -0400 Message-ID: <539093C8.2060908@candelatech.com> (sfid-20140605_175909_934290_40D6204A) Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:59:04 -0700 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kalle Valo CC: Emmanuel Grumbach , ath10k , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Firmware debugging patches? References: <53891ACD.7070902@candelatech.com> <87wqczz3h9.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <538CA904.4000508@candelatech.com> <87ioojz1b1.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <538CB782.1000509@candelatech.com> <538CC68C.10808@gmail.com> <538CC949.5020901@candelatech.com> <87fvjjpqqe.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> In-Reply-To: <87fvjjpqqe.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/05/2014 03:58 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: > Ben Greear writes: > >> I am not sure this is really the case currently. But, once the >> blob is generated and stored in RAM, it would be easily enough to >> add ethtool option to dump it w/out debugfs support. This will >> still not really address my concerns because it may take a year >> or two for the latest ethtool binary to make it to normal-ish users. > > [...] > >> I think ethtool would not be overly hard to implement...basic framework is already >> in the wifi stack. > > Few weeks back John Linville sent ethtool related patches to support > something like this. Did you notice that? I didn't...but will take a look once I get my pending patches dealt with. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com