[PATCH] FYI/ Re: PCI Error Recovery API Proposal (updated)

long tlnguyen at snoqualmie.dp.intel.com
Sat May 14 01:02:28 EST 2005


On Fri, 6 May 2005 18:05:06, Linas wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This is an "FYI" patch partially implementing the PCI error recovery API 
>previously detailed by BenH in an earlier email.  
>
>Its an "FYI patch" because this patch has numerous flaws and limitations 
>which I'm hoping to address any day now.  I've been busy with other
>things, but have recently been able to carve out a chunk of time to work
>on this.
>
>This patch is almost identical to a previous patch I'd mailed out
>before, with only minor changes made to bring it into line with
>BenH's proposed API.  Basically, I'm just dusting off the old patch,
>prior to making more serious changes.  I hope to send a more serious
>patch in a few days/week.  Meanwhile, criticism invited.
>
>This patch does actually recover from PCI errors on ethernet cards 
>plugged into ppc64 hotplug slots, and from PCI errors on the IPR scsi 
>controller. 

This patch works fine for my AER code. Please post it to LKML.

Thanks,
Long



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