On 10/13/2017 05:37 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > I really dislike this. > > You're basically saying the kernel can't work out how to get a device > working, so let's leave it up to the user.
Oh, it was never my intention to say such blasphemy :) It meant to be just a debug option to help the users, specifically the ones debugging drivers, to try using a hammer to recover bad devices! To this issue that I mentioned as an example, the fix specifically goes in the FW of the adapter. Anyway, since you really dislike it, let's drop it, no big deal! Cheers, Guilherme > > The driver should be fixed to detect that the device is not responding > and request a reset. > > cheers >
