Hi,
I just spent 2 hours trying to make a machine boot. It had one bad disk
and one bad network card. Normally not a problem, but this thing had 40
cards in it so identifying the problem ones was not straight forward.
I was wondering why we dont have a consistent way of printing a device
location? If all drivers used the same thing, eg:
struct pci_dev *foo;
...
printf("%s: could not enable card\n", PCI_LOCATION(foo));
Which by default would print pci bus/devfn and an arch could override eg
on ppc64 it would also print a location code:
U1.6-P1-I2/E1 (90:0c.0)
This sounds like the domain of the event logging guys but I havent seen
anything from them in a while. The nice thing about this is that when we
get pci domains nothing needs to be changed in the driver, we just
update the PCI_LOCATION macro.
Also the tendency of network drivers to print "eth0: foo" during
initialisation is even more of a problem. If you get a bad card then you
could end up reusing the eth0 name for a subsequent device, making
pinpointing the problem card difficult. On top of that some drivers use
dev->name between calling alloc_netdev() and register_netdev() so that
you end up with error messages like "eth%d: failed".
Anton
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