On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Jon Smirl <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dmitry, can you make a new 'zb' message that originates in the >> attached serial device and allows them to send a debug message? By >> default the message should do a printk(). The zb-debug messages need >> to be legal in any state the serial driver may be in. > > Hmmm. Patches are welcome. I ain't sure that it's possible to make a > 'zb-debug' message > to be put in the middle of the protocol.
At all points where the host can receive a message, it need to check for zb-debug messages. If it gets one, printk, and return to the state that it was in. I'm still caught without access to all of my equipment, hopefully we should be moved into the new house next week. > > Anyway, serial.c needs a great rework. It needs to be rewritten to use skbs > skb_queues internally. Also it would be great to make it support several > protocols (like hci_uart), as I'd like to present an RFC for the next > generation > of serial communications protocol, that would be less phy-oriented, more > extensible, etc. > >> It is difficult to debug these drivers when the serial line is tied up >> with packet protocol. There is no other way to get a message out of >> the chip. > > > > -- > With best wishes > Dmitry > -- Jon Smirl [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Linux-zigbee-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-zigbee-devel
