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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mwifiex: add firmware dump feature for PCIe
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:29:53 +0200
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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?

johannes