[PATCH] rpaphp broken in ameslab

Linda Xie lxiep at us.ibm.com
Thu Jul 1 05:03:32 EST 2004


Paul,

Paul Mackerras wrote:

>Linda,
>
>
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>By the way, I notice that upstream rpaphp_core.c now has the call to
>eeh_register_disable_func(), although the actual function isn't
>present in arch/ppc64/kernel/eeh.c.  I thought we were going to do
>that via userspace.  Did Greg change his mind?
>
>
 eeh_register_disable_func needs to be sent to upstream by
ppc64(maintainers), if it's not in.


>
>I think that we have it the wrong way around though.  I think that the
>rpaphp code should do something analogous to a request_irq() to ask to
>be informed about slot isolation events, rather than having the EEH
>code call the rpaphp code to disable a slot.  In fact I think the
>separation is bogus; the EEH code and the rpaphp code are both part of
>the driver for the RPA PCI subsystem.
>
>
Linas, Can you answer all EEH releated questions?

Thanks,

Linda

>Paul.
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