Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] PCI/DPC: Unify and plumb error handling into DPC

From: Sinan Kaya
Date: Thu Jan 18 2018 - 13:03:55 EST


On 1/18/2018 1:00 PM, poza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I think you would put into include/linux/pci.h only if there is an external
>> use of constant outside of drivers/pci directory. Otherwise, you should keep
>> the setting inside one of the header files in drivers/pci directory.
>>
>> I don't see any other subsystem caring about DPC_FATAL definition.
>
> ok so you are suggesting to move only DPC_FATAL ? so then AER can stay where it is.

Now that both AER and DPC handling is getting unified, I think it makes sense to
keep all error codes (AER+DPC) together in drivers/pci/pci.h rather than having
them split in aer.h and dpc.h.

Otherwise, how would we avoid having a new error type defined with the existing values.



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Sinan Kaya
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