Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add PPC contacts for PCI core error handling

From: Sam Bobroff
Date: Thu Sep 13 2018 - 20:05:34 EST


On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:26:55PM +1000, Russell Currey wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 11:58 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:55:26AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > The original PCI error recovery functionality was for the powerpc-specific
> > > IBM EEH feature. PCIe subsequently added some similar features, including
> > > AER and DPC, that can be used on any architecture.
> > >
> > > We want the generic PCI core error handling support to work with all of
> > > these features. Driver error recovery callbacks should be independent of
> > > which feature the platform provides.
> > >
> > > Add the generic PCI core error recovery files to the powerpc EEH
> > > MAINTAINERS entry so the powerpc folks will be copied on changes to the
> > > generic PCI error handling strategy.
> >
> > I really want to make sure the powerpc folks are plugged into any PCI core
> > error handling discussions. Please let me know if there's a better way
> > than this patch, or if there are other people who should be added.
>
> I think this patch is definitely a good idea.
>
> Alongside this (whether you want to include it in your patch or not, Bjorn),
> Sam Bobroff should replace myself as maintainer. He's been very active in fixing,
> reworking and reviewing in EEH land and will probably do a better job of keeping
> his finger on the pulse of the generic PCI error handling code than I did.
>
> - Russell

That's fine with me. You can add me or let me know if I should send a
patch.

Sam.

>
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > MAINTAINERS | 4 ++++
> > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index 7e10ba65bfe4..d6699597fd89 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -11202,6 +11202,10 @@ PCI ENHANCED ERROR HANDLING (EEH) FOR POWERPC
> > > M: Russell Currey <ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > L: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > S: Supported
> > > +F: Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.txt
> > > +F: drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> > > +F: drivers/pci/pcie/dpc.c
> > > +F: drivers/pci/pcie/err.c
> > > F: Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt
> > > F: arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh*.c
> > > F: arch/powerpc/platforms/*/eeh*.c
> > >
>

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