[PATCH v3 1/5] PCI/ERR: Remove misleading TODO regarding kernel panic

Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.linaro.org at kernel.org
Fri Apr 18 03:16:27 AEST 2025


From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org>

A PCI device is just another peripheral in a system. So failure to
recover it, must not result in a kernel panic. So remove the TODO which
is quite misleading.

Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/pci/pcie/err.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/err.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/err.c
index 31090770fffcc94e15ba6e89f649c6f84bfdf0d5..de6381c690f5c21f00021cdc7bde8d93a5c7db52 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pcie/err.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/err.c
@@ -271,7 +271,6 @@ pci_ers_result_t pcie_do_recovery(struct pci_dev *dev,
 
 	pci_uevent_ers(bridge, PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT);
 
-	/* TODO: Should kernel panic here? */
 	pci_info(bridge, "device recovery failed\n");
 
 	return status;

-- 
2.43.0




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