[PATCH 15/27] powerpc/eeh: I/O chip EEH state retrieval

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 11:32 +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:

> >Same comments about "state" which is really "delay" and is probably
> >not necessary at all ...
> >
> 
> We need the "delay" in future to support PowerKVM guest. If the
> specified PE is being reset, we rely on the delay to hold the
> powerkvm guest for a while until the PE reset is done.

Do we ? Can't we just rely on "temp unavailble" result and wait 1s when
that happens (then try again) ?

IE, A delay associated with a state doesn't make that much sense
semantically speaking. With a state *transition* maybe but this isn't
what this function is about...

Cheers,
Ben.