linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ata:Fix error handling in the function ahci_pci_reset

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Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:07:54 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata:Fix error handling in the function
 ahci_pci_reset_controller

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:27:47PM -0400, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> This fixes error handling in the function ahci_pci_reset_controller
> to properly check if the call to ahci_reset_controller fails and
> if return -EIO to this function's caller rather then continuing
> with this function's intended work if the controller cannot be
> reset properly for this ahci pci based device.

Maybe... I don't know.  What do we gain by failing resume?  Reporting
is fine but what'd be the recovery action?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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