From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>,
Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>,
Maithili Hinge <maithili@marvell.com>,
Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mwifiex: add firmware dump feature for PCIe
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:13:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738guokvv.fsf@qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398846593.5408.0.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (Johannes Berg's message of "Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:29:53 +0200")
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 10:41 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
>>
>> > On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 20:35 -0700, Bing Zhao wrote:
>> >
>> >> Sorry about the hassle. We will find a proper way to implement this.
>> >
>> > FWIW, a pretty simple way is to trigger a uevent or so and have a
>> > debugfs file that all the info can be read out from in userspace.
>>
>> I think we need a similar feature in ath10k as well. Should we have a
>> generic interface this, would that make any sense?
>
> We have it in iwlwifi as well - we were considering a generic uevent but
> beyond that I don't think there's much that could be done?
I was thinking that it would be nice to avoid rewriting a separate user
space dumping tool for each driver and instead have a comman way to
retrieve the blobs from the driver.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-30 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-17 18:46 [PATCH 1/5] mwifiex: add fw_dump debugfs file Bing Zhao
2014-04-17 18:47 ` [PATCH 2/5] mwifiex: add firmware dump feature for PCIe Bing Zhao
2014-04-24 9:08 ` Kalle Valo
2014-04-25 1:37 ` John W. Linville
2014-04-25 3:35 ` Bing Zhao
2014-04-25 8:09 ` Johannes Berg
2014-04-30 7:41 ` Kalle Valo
2014-04-30 8:29 ` Johannes Berg
2014-04-30 13:22 ` John W. Linville
2014-04-30 16:14 ` Kalle Valo
2014-05-05 12:57 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-05 14:19 ` Amitkumar Karwar
2014-05-05 15:04 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-05 15:49 ` Amitkumar Karwar
2014-04-30 16:13 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2014-05-05 12:58 ` Johannes Berg
2014-04-17 18:47 ` [PATCH 3/5] mwifiex: increase tx/rx AMPDU window sizes for STA 11n mode Bing Zhao
2014-04-17 18:47 ` [PATCH 4/5] mwifiex: increase tx/rx AMPDU window sizes for STA 11ac mode Bing Zhao
2014-04-17 18:47 ` [PATCH 5/5] mwifiex: enable aggregation for TID 6 and 7 streams Bing Zhao
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