Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: btmrvl add firmware dump support

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On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 05:31 -0800, Amitkumar Karwar wrote:

> +static ssize_t btmrvl_fwdump_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf,
> +				  size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
> +{
> +	struct btmrvl_private *priv = file->private_data;
> +	ssize_t ret = 0;
> +
> +	btmrvl_firmware_dump(priv);

Might be better to do that on write.


> +		fw_dump_len += (strlen("========Start dump ") +
> +				strlen(entry->mem_name) +
> +				strlen("========\n") +
> +				(memory_size + 1) +
> +				strlen("\n========End dump========\n"));

I'd consider a binary file format.

You also need the select in the Kconfig as I pointed out before.

The more intended use case for this was to trigger it when the driver
detected a crash, but I guess a debugfs file works as well, just not
sure when you'd want it.

johannes

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