linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s2io: add PCI error recovery support

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Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:49:41 -0500
From:	linas@...tin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To:	Ramkrishna Vepa <Ramkrishna.Vepa@...erion.com>
Cc:	Wen Xiong <wenxiong@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s2io: add PCI error recovery support

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:33:39PM -0500, Ramkrishna Vepa wrote:
> Comments on this patch -
> 
> 1. device_close_flag is unused and is not required.

I'll submit a patch to strip this out sometime next week.

> 2. s2io_reset can fail to reset the device. 

I thought I'd seen this occasionally, and its on my to-do list
to look into this further.

> Ideally s2io_reset should
> return a failure in this case (return is void now) 

Would you care to provide a patch that did this? I could 
experiment a bit, and try to do this myself; but I really
don't know this hardware, or this driver, that well.

--linas


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