Re: [PATCH] pci-error-recover: doc cleanup

From: Cao jin
Date: Sun Dec 18 2016 - 22:21:51 EST


Sorry for late.

On 12/09/2016 10:37 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2016 14:37:47 +0800
> Cao jin <caoj.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I am little confused too, even not sure if we are talking the same
>> *fatal error*, I am talking the fatal error defined in PCI Express spec,
>> chapter 6.2.2.2.1:
>
> Therein lies my original discomfort with the change; it didn't seem to
> make sense to talk about recovering from a fatal error. Perhaps making
> it "is done whenever a fatal error (as defined in section 6.2.2.2.1) has
> been detected that can be "solved" by resetting the link" or something
> like that to make it clear how the term is being used?
>

I find that the .link_reset callback of struct pci_error_handlers isn't
called by anyone(if I didn't miss anything), and just a few drivers
implement this callback, and their implementation seems meaningless.

And the reset_link() provided by aer driver seems is a different thing
with .link_reset callback. So I am guessing this patch probably is not
quite suitable, and the doc maybe need update totally.

--
Sincerely,
Cao jin