[PATCH] PPC64: EEH Recovery

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> Ahh, I occasionally have to debug code that looks like
> 
>    if(a)
>      if (b)
>         x=y;
>    else
>         x=z;
> 
> so I get cranky when I don't see braces. That, and the fact that I've
> helped other people debug code that had started life as

Of course, the above case would definitely require { } to be sane and
gcc would probably even warn about it.

> and so I have come to enjoy braces as a way of avoiding
> stupid-error-prone-human-errors.  So what if its ugly, as long as 
> it saves you time and trouble later?

Because it is ugly :) taste taste ...

> Heh :)  Removing the pci device also causes all of the pointers in the 
> device tree for that device to be nulled out, and so one looses the
> topology. So I had three bad choices:

Hrm... just keeping the domain/bus/devfn should be enough anyway

> 1) Change the device-remove code to not null-out the pointers.
>    This seemed potentially dangerous, and might have unexpected
>    side-effects.  And worse: if someone, one day in the future, 
>    changed the code back to null out the pointers, my code would 
>    break.  So I didn't do this.
> 
> 2) Add pointers to the device tree which point to exactly the same
>    things as other pointers in the device tree, but which aren't 
>    null'ed out during device delete.  This seemed to lead to confusion: 
>    someday, someone will wonder why there are two sets of identical 
>    pointers in the struct, and "fix it". 
> 
> 3) create the structs I needed.  Simple, easy, limited in scope to just
>    that one file, doesn't have to be exposed externally ... seemed like 
>    such an easy idea.  So that's what I did.
> 
> --linas
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>