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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: mwifiex: add firmware dump feature for PCIe
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 02:37:09PM -0700, Bing Zhao wrote:
> 
> AFAIK, the debugfs or sysfs cannot store/hold the files we retrieve
> from firmware at the scene. We write fw_dump files to rootfs so that
> the files are stored even if the system reboots due to hung_task
> timeout. 

Ah.  Gotcha.

regards,
dan carpenter