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

2014-09-11 Thread Kalle Valo
Kalle Valo writes: > From: Ben Greear > > 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 deco

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

2014-09-11 Thread Kalle Valo
Ben Greear writes: > On 09/10/2014 08:59 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: >> From: Ben Greear >> >> 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

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

2014-09-10 Thread Ben Greear
On 09/10/2014 08:59 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: From: Ben Greear 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 crash

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

2014-09-10 Thread Kalle Valo
From: Ben Greear 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