Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:37157 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422649AbaD3NaR (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:30:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:22:47 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Johannes Berg Cc: Kalle Valo , Bing Zhao , Kalle Valo , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Amitkumar Karwar , Avinash Patil , Maithili Hinge , Xinming Hu Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mwifiex: add firmware dump feature for PCIe Message-ID: <20140430132246.GB3635@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20140430_153022_409639_40F4E85E) References: <1397760423-11455-1-git-send-email-bzhao@marvell.com> <1397760423-11455-2-git-send-email-bzhao@marvell.com> <87a9bb5c2c.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> <20140425013756.GA3410@tuxdriver.com> <477F20668A386D41ADCC57781B1F70430F70A2AE8E@SC-VEXCH1.marvell.com> <1398413370.4152.0.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> <8738gvp8md.fsf@qca.qualcomm.com> <1398846593.5408.0.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1398846593.5408.0.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:29:53AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 10:41 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > > Johannes Berg 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? There is an ethtool op for that, no? -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.