On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:50:19AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> Since commit 3c47d19ff4dc ("drivers: base: add coredump driver ops")
> it is possible to initiate a device coredump from user-space. This
> patch adds support for it adding the .coredump() driver callback.
> As there is no longer a need to initiate it through debugfs remove
> that code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/debugfs.c | 31
> +-------------------------
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c | 19 ++++++++++++++--
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sdio.c | 13 +++++++++++
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/usb.c | 14 ++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
The documentation doesn't really say [1], but is the coredump supposed
to happen synchronously? Because the mwifiex implementation is
asynchronous, whereas it looks like the brcmfmac one is synchronous.
Brian
[1] In fact, the ABI documentation really just describes kernel
internals, rather than documenting any user-facing details, from what I
can tell.
