[PATCH v2] ath10k: support firmware crash-by-assert
Kalle Valo
kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Thu Sep 11 13:40:26 PDT 2014
Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> writes:
> On 09/10/2014 08:59 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>>
>> 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
>
> This looks fine to me. I have not tested this version.
I did test it and seems to work as it should.
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Kalle Valo
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