Re: [PATCH] EDAC/ie31200: fallback if host bridge device is already initialized

[Luck, Tony]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 02:25:11PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> The Intel uncore driver may claim some of the pci ids from ie31200 which
> means that the ie31200 edac driver will not initialize them as part of
> pci_register_driver().
> 
> Let's add a fallback for this case to 'pci_get_device()' to get a
> reference on the device such that it can still be configured. This is
> similar in approach to other edac drivers.

What functionality is lost when this happens?

Does the user see some message in the console
log to let them know?

-Tony