[RFC 2/4] ath10k: save firmware debug log messages.

[Ben Greear]

On 06/03/2014 09:45 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 09:25 -0700, greearb at candelatech.com wrote:
>> They may be dumped through the firmware dump debugfs
>> file.
> []
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
> []
>> @@ -1084,11 +1084,14 @@ static void ath10k_wmi_event_echo(struct ath10k *ar, struct sk_buff *skb)
>>  
>>  static int ath10k_wmi_event_debug_mesg(struct ath10k *ar, struct sk_buff *skb)
>>  {
>> +	u32 *m = (u32 *)(skb->data);
>>  	ath10k_dbg(ATH10K_DBG_WMI, "wmi event debug mesg len %d\n",
>>  		   skb->len);
>>  
>>  	trace_ath10k_wmi_dbglog(skb->data, skb->len);
>>  
>> +	ath10k_dbg_save_fw_dbg_buffer(ar, (u8 *)(&(m[1])), skb->len - 4);
>> +
>>  	return 0;
>>  }
>>  
> 
> That last line looks an overly complicated way of writing
> 
> 	ath10k_dbg_save_fw_dbg_buffer(ar, skb->data + 4, skb->len - 4);
> 
> btw: why skip the first 4 bytes?

First 4 bytes is a counter meaning something like 'messages lost due to overflow',
and is not really part of the debug messages.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com