[PATCH 1/2] cxl: Fix bug where AFU disable operation had no effect

Ian Munsie imunsie at au1.ibm.com
Fri Jul 1 02:45:37 AEST 2016


Excerpts from Frederic Barrat's message of 2016-06-30 17:50:00 +0200:
> 
> Le 30/06/2016 17:32, Ian Munsie a écrit :
> >> For dedicated mode, the CAIA recommends an explicit reset of the AFU
> >> >(section 2.1.1).
> > True, I had forgotten that procedure was added to the document before it
> > was made public - I'll update the comment and resend.
> >
> 
> Actually, my point was that for dedicated mode, we shouldn't have the 
> "if" and always reset. It's only for dedicated mode, so it wouldn't 
> impact cx4 and we would stay CAIA-compliant. If one day, there's a xsl 
> with a dedicated mode AFU, they are expected to follow the spec.

Yeah, I thought of that as well while I was updating the patch and
removed that from the dedicated path. I still added a comment to that
path to note that though.

Cheers,
-Ian



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