linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] PCI/DPC: Unify and plumb error handling into DPC

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Date:   Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:03:45 -0500
From:   Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
To:     poza@...eaurora.org
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dongdong Liu <liudongdong3@...wei.com>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>, Wei Zhang <wzhang@...com>,
        Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] PCI/DPC: Unify and plumb error handling into DPC

On 1/18/2018 1:00 PM, poza@...eaurora.org wrote:
>> I think you would put into include/linux/pci.h only if there is an external
>> use of constant outside of drivers/pci directory. Otherwise, you should keep
>> the setting inside one of the header files in drivers/pci directory.
>>
>> I don't see any other subsystem caring about DPC_FATAL definition.
> 
> ok so you are suggesting to move only DPC_FATAL ? so then AER can stay where it is.

Now that both AER and DPC handling is getting unified, I think it makes sense to
keep all error codes (AER+DPC) together in drivers/pci/pci.h rather than having
them split in aer.h and dpc.h.

Otherwise, how would we avoid having a new error type defined with the existing values.



-- 
Sinan Kaya
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.