From: Sujith <m.sujith@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:59:38 +0530
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 3/7] ath9k: Merge wiphy and misc debugfs files
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Ben Greear wrote:
> Actually, I think it might be useful to have a second level of debugging.
> I hope to soon have time & resources to add some logic to dump lots of register
> info and such in human-readable format, (like, when DMA times out).  That is going to be a lot
> of strings added to the driver, so the compile size will definitely
> increase.  If keeping the size small is important, then this sort of verbose thing
> could be hidden behind a second level of debugging...

That could be implemented similar to what usbmon does. A debugfs file that could
be read and redirected to a file. And there would be no overhead to the
driver, I think. We could call it the 'event log'. :)

Sujith