From: Sujith <m.sujith@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:24:17 +0530
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ath9k_htc: Dump base eeprom header for UB91/94/95
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Christian Lamparter wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, this was the reasoning that I used to write a tool to dump eeprom
data for PCI cards (using libpciaccess), and it is languishing internally. :)

I agree that there are benefits to having a userspace tool,
maybe Luis' ath-utils tree can be used. But until then, it would be useful
to have these in the driver.

Sujith