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Re: [ANN] new experimental firmware for 7260 / 3160 / 7265 - Core7

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On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Nate Carlson
<linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [responding to both messages at once here]
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
>>
>> If you want, you can apply this:
>
> <..>
>
>> You'll need the firmware attached, and load the driver with fw_monitor=1.
>> Then, when the error you mentioned will occur, it will crash the firmware on
>> purpose so that we can get the logs. You'll see lots of junk in dmesg.
>>
>> Once this happened, you can take the data from
>> /sys/kernel/debug/iwlwifi/0000\:01\:00.0/iwlmvm/fw_error_dump. This will
>> weigh around 4MB depending on the available memory in your system, this is
>> the data I need to give to the firmware team.
>
>
> I will give this a try later on -- I'm testing this on my real laptop, and
> am in the middle of a project, so can't reboot at the moment (I love Linux -
> if a driver pukes, just reload it and reconnect, no need to reboot!)
>
>
>> I just saw something weird...
>>
>> The Q 16 is still working while we flush:
>
> <...>
>
>> can you please re-run with trace-cmd -e iwlwifi -iwlwifi_msg -e
>> mac80211 and send the trace.dat output.
>
>
> Sure! I'm new to this; did a bit of RTFM'ing, and I'm guessing that the
> command should actually be:
>
> trace-cmd record -e iwlwifi -e iwlwifi_msg -e mac80211
>

yeah - you're right obviously :)

> ..and that I should wait until the issue occurs again with this running, and
> then hit ctrl-c, gpg-encrypt the trace.dat and send it to you?  (Or should I
> open a bugzilla and attach the encrypted file there?)
>
> If any of that's incorrect, let me know.
>
> The issue did already happen again today - unfortunately I hadn't gotten to
> firing up the trace-cmd yet.. so hopefully it'll happen again.  :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Nate
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