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SubjectRe: [RFC] firmware coredump: add new firmware coredump class
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On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
>> And if we want to use this for i915 we need some way for tools to go
>> from the i915 drm class device node to the error state, not just from
>> the error state back to the device.
>
> Interesting. That's probably not all that difficult to do (maybe even
> set up a child/parent relationship?) but I actually wanted to avoid a
> hard dependency since there may be cases where the failing device
> disappears, e.g. in the case of USB. I have to think about this case
> more, I guess.

Yeah a hard parent/child won't because the device might drop off the
bus while committing seppuku. But I think we need to be able to follow
the link both ways.
-Daniel
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