[PATCH V1] PCI/AER: Configure ECRC only AER is native

Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy at linux.intel.com
Thu Jan 12 16:06:15 AEDT 2023



On 1/11/23 8:59 PM, Vidya Sagar wrote:
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> On 1/12/2023 9:18 AM, Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy wrote:
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>> On 1/11/23 7:33 PM, Vidya Sagar wrote:
>>> I think we still need bios option. For example, consider a system where BIOS needs to keep ECRC enabled for integrity reasons but if kernel doesn't want it for perf reasons, then, kernel can always use 'ecrc=off' option.
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>> I agree that "on" and "off" option makes sense. Since the kernel defaults ecrc setting to "bios", why again allow it as a command line option?
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> Agree. "on" and "off" are fine but "default" is redundant. Do you want me to push a change to remove that as part of this patch itself? I think
> it is more like a cleanup and should go separately.

IMO, the "bios" option cleanup and command line update from Bjorn can be in one patch, and your change could be a separate patch. But it is
up to you and Bjorn.

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>> Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
>> Linux Kernel Developer

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