Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.19.149.2]:48719 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753014Ab1ECCcT (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2011 22:32:19 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.234.20.104]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Mon, 02 May 2011 19:31:51 -0700 Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 19:31:58 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Sujith CC: Christian Lamparter , "ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , Luis Rodriguez Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ath9k_htc: Dump base eeprom header for UB91/94/95 Message-ID: <20110503023158.GA11667@tux> (sfid-20110503_043235_499794_16B35535) References: <19897.11321.556139.837633@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <201104290116.26355.chunkeey@googlemail.com> <19898.4633.920683.992470@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <201104291106.21170.chunkeey@googlemail.com> <19898.35529.55613.593784@gargle.gargle.HOWL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <19898.35529.55613.593784@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 02:54:17AM -0700, Sujith wrote: > 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. Why didn't we ever open your tool up? Luis