linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] PCI/sysfs: Allow userspace to query and set device reset mechanism

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Message-ID: <YF3ZcQptMzN1Iad1@unreal>
Date:   Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:54:09 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Krzysztof Wilczyński <kw@...ux.com>
Cc:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <info@...ux.net>,
        Amey Narkhede <ameynarkhede03@...il.com>,
        raphael.norwitz@...anix.com, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        bhelgaas@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        alay.shah@...anix.com, suresh.gumpula@...anix.com,
        shyam.rajendran@...anix.com, felipe@...anix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] PCI/sysfs: Allow userspace to query and set device
 reset mechanism

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:18:25AM +0100, Krzysztof Wilczyński wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> [...]
> 
> Aside of the sysfs interface, would this new functionality also require
> anything to be overridden at boot time via passing some command-line
> arguments?  Not sure how relevant such thing would be to device, but,
> whatnot reset, though.

This is per-device property and can't be universally correct like kernel
command-line arguments. I don't think that we need to add such functionality.

> 
> I am curious whether there would be a need for anything like that.

I prefer not.

> 
> Krzysztof