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Re: [PATCH 2/5] mwifiex: add firmware dump feature for PCIe

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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 10:41 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

I was thinking that it would be nice to avoid rewriting a separate user
space dumping tool for each driver and instead have a comman way to
retrieve the blobs from the driver.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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