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Re: [PATCH v2] ath10k: support firmware crash-by-assert

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Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 10.1 firmware does not have an official way to
> cause assert on purpose, but it can be done with
> carefully crafted WMI command.  This is a different
> kind of crash from the 'hard' crash, which is
> a bad memory dereference.
>
> Different crashes decode in different manners, so
> this will help the crash-report testing as well as
> offer better ways to test firmware failure and
> recovery.
>
> kvalo: move the wmi command creation to debug.c, modify
> the info print
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Ben, applied.

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Kalle Valo
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