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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com>,
	ath10k <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Firmware debugging patches?
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:02:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5391E620.4090706@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvjimsxj.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>

On 06/05/2014 11:51 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> writes:
> 
>>> Why do you want to put the crash dump in kernel log, can you describe
>>> your "use case" here? For me it would be enough to have a UUID for each
>>> crash dump and then have the driver print that to kernel log:
>>>
>>> ath10k: firmware crashed (uuid 1234567890-4321)
>>>
>>> And then you just need to find the correct dump from the file system and
>>> start debugging. Would that be enough for you?
>>
>> Not all systems will have fancy user-space able to deal with this.
>>
>> At the very least, please leave in the current firmware crash
>> dump text.
> 
> I'm not removing anything. That was just an example how we can identify
> crashes.

Perhaps the time-stamp is good enough?  I don't see a need for
a uuid, but perhaps I am missing something?

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-06 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <53891ACD.7070902@candelatech.com>
     [not found] ` <87wqczz3h9.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
     [not found]   ` <538CA904.4000508@candelatech.com>
     [not found]     ` <87ioojz1b1.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
2014-06-02 17:42       ` Firmware debugging patches? Ben Greear
2014-06-02 18:46         ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2014-06-02 18:58           ` Ben Greear
2014-06-02 19:29             ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2014-06-02 19:48               ` Ben Greear
2014-06-04 19:23                 ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2014-06-04 19:29                   ` Ben Greear
2014-06-05 11:10                     ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-05 15:51                       ` Ben Greear
2014-06-05 11:06                 ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-05 15:57                   ` Ben Greear
2014-06-06  6:51                     ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-06 16:02                       ` Ben Greear [this message]
2014-06-07 13:03                         ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-07 15:27                           ` Ben Greear
2014-06-08  8:35                             ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-08  9:13                               ` Johannes Berg
2014-06-08 16:01                                 ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2014-06-08 15:39                               ` Ben Greear
2014-06-09  8:17                                 ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-09 15:09                                   ` Ben Greear
2014-06-09 15:47                                     ` Ben Greear
2014-06-09 16:27                                       ` Ben Greear
2014-06-10  6:05                                         ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-10 15:06                                           ` Ben Greear
2014-06-26 15:26                                           ` Ben Greear
2014-06-26 16:01                                             ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-05 10:58             ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-05 15:59               ` Ben Greear
2014-06-05 10:51         ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-05 16:03           ` Ben Greear

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