Return-path: Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:37202 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751992Ab1D2BQu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:16:50 -0400 Received: by pwi15 with SMTP id 15so1559966pwi.19 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:16:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Sujith MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <19898.4633.920683.992470@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (sfid-20110429_031656_420974_0AB1E9D6) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:49:21 +0530 To: Christian Lamparter Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ath9k_htc: Dump base eeprom header for UB91/94/95 In-Reply-To: <201104290116.26355.chunkeey@googlemail.com> References: <19897.11321.556139.837633@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <201104290116.26355.chunkeey@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Christian Lamparter wrote: > On Thursday 28 April 2011 10:58:33 Sujith wrote: > > From: Sujith Manoharan > > > > Debugfs file location: /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. 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. And BSD ? BSD is dead. Adrian is just deluded. :-) Sujith